by Liane Davey | Mar 2, 2021 | Meetings
Poster Meeting Decision Tree If you have a meeting invite sitting waiting that you haven’t replied to yet, or with the very next one that comes in, I want you to stop and go through this process. Evaluate that meeting Want to Craft Better Feedback? Some More Great...
by Liane Davey | Mar 2, 2021 | Meetings, Video Library
Should you accept that meeting invite? (video transcript) Wondering whether to accept or decline a meeting invitation? Let’s go through a simple set of questions you can ask yourself to make a call. Is it important? First, take a look at what you know...
by Liane Davey | Feb 28, 2021 | Be a better team member, Communication, Contribute, Meetings, Right Words to Say
How many hours have you spent stuck in mind-numbing meetings where the conversation is so mired in the weeds that you have to amuse yourself by coloring in the holes in the D’s and R’s and O’s on a brochure on your desk? Really…that many? Yikes. (I’m...
by Liane Davey | Oct 20, 2019 | Be a better team leader, Contribute, Horror Stories, Meetings, Right Words to Say
Another week, another great question from an audience member. This time, “What do I do if a colleague from another department keeps skipping the meetings I schedule and then complains about the decisions later?” Add this behavior to the list of the most annoying...
by Liane Davey | Oct 1, 2017 | Be a better team leader, Communication, Contribute, Exercises, How to fix teams, Meetings, Success Stories
I was facilitating an executive team meeting last week. Although the meeting had been scheduled as a full day, four people started the day saying that they needed to leave early. (I’ll save my rant about that for later). Four of the team members needed to be gone by...
by Liane Davey | Sep 24, 2017 | Connect, Horror Stories, Meetings, Personal Effectiveness
In my previous post, I reacted to an editorial in the Guardian by Simon Jenkins, who came to the conclusion that meetings are killing people and destroying organizations. His article failed to consider all the good reasons why you go to meetings, so I decided to...
