Meetings

(POLL) Do You Ever Hold Off-site Meetings with Your Team? – Small Business Trends

Data shows that nearly every small business loathes meetings. OK, loathe may be a strong word but they’re probably one of the least looked-forward to events in your team’s weekly calendar. They may all come to dread the sight, sounds and smells of your regular meeting space. So, one solution is to move regular meetings […]

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Here’s Why You Need to Schedule More Lunch Meetings

SEO BLOG, Strategy / Good To SEO

neshom / Pixabay When it comes to scheduling meetings you typically have plenty of options. Phone, Skype, their office, the coffee shop, the list goes on. When you finally get in touch with that potential client it’s up to you to win them over in that first meeting. If possible you need to get them

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5 Creative Steps That Make People Want to Show Up for Meetings

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These days many people are spending upwards of 70% of their working day in back to back meetings. Until we figure out new ways of turning that around, here are some ideas to facilitate dynamic meetings. Note that the word facilitate means “to make easy”. Here are some ways to make it simple for people to get

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5 Key Tactics the Pros Use for Lunch Meetings

Management, Publisher Channel Content, SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

When it comes to scheduling meetings you typically have plenty of options. Phone, Skype, their office, the coffee shop, the list goes on. When you finally get in touch with that potential client it’s up to you to win them over in that first meeting. If possible you need to get them in a face to face

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This 1 Change Will Make Your Meetings Run Like Elon Musk’s

productivity, SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

I’ll admit it. My handwriting is atrocious. My hand aches just thinking about having to write something down on paper. No matter how many times we tell our coworkers “I’m just taking notes” on your phone or your computer, they suspect you’re really checking your ex’s Facebook status or Donald Trump’s latest Twitter rant. (After

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The Project Manager’s Guide to Running Better Meetings

Human Resources, SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

Everyone has at least one memory of an unpleasantly long and unfruitful meeting. In fact, unproductive meetings cost American businesses nearly $37B each year. Little wonder that executives consider two-thirds of meetings to be failures. For project managers, however, holding meetings is a critical part of their job descriptions. From kicking off a project to

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There May Be 56 Million Business Meetings in America Today (INFOGRAPHIC)

SEO BLOG, Small Business Operations / Good To SEO

If you are working, there is a good chance you are part of the up to 56 million meetings taking place today. And as the new infographic from Cincinnati Bell Inc. (CBTS) indicates, you also might be part of the 76 percent that thinks they are unnecessary meetings. This brings us to the title of

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CMOs, Your Meetings Might Be Stifling Creativity & They Don’t Have To

CMO Corner, SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) lead teams of forward-thinking, creative people that find ways to make the ordinary a little more exciting. Unfortunately, I’ve witnessed more than a few CMOs forgetting their audience during critical presentations. As they unleash “death by PowerPoint”, everyone’s eyes start to glaze over. And, before you know it, the enthusiasm is

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How to Structure Your Meetings to Help, Not Hurt, Efficiency

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cdu445 / Pixabay Meetings. The word is enough to strike fear into the hearts of most employees. It evokes wasted time, wasted money, and, above all, wasted energy. They’re slow, pointless, and most of them could be accomplished via email, right? Wrong. Meetings don’t have to be a soul-sucking time waste. If you structure your

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The Science of Productive Content Marketing Team Meetings

Operations, productivity, SEO BLOG, Teams and Process / Good To SEO

If you want an easy way to help your marketing team produce better content, cancel a meeting. Better yet, cancel your first meeting of the day. Studies have shown how lapses in productivity often trace back to an overabundance of team meetings. Schedule a status call for first thing in the morning, and a content

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