Meeting Villains: Meet-Head
Continuing our series on Meeting villains, today we are talking about The Meet-Head. The Dreaded Invite:You dread when you see the meeting invite from him. He has scheduled 4 meetings with you already this week, and those meetings digressed into him updating a spreadsheet on the projector while everyone sat and watched. Does he understand […]
Meeting Villains: How to Tell if Someone is a Hijacker.
Previously we introduced you to the Meeting Villains, this is the first installment in that series: The Meeting Hijacker. The Hijacking You didn’t suspect that he would turn out to be a Hijacker. It was your first meeting with him. He looked pretty clean cut… dressed like any other businessman… with his Brooks Brother shirt, […]
Tell me again, Why Was I Invited To This Meeting?
Do you work with someone who is double-booked for multiple meetings every day? Can you hear them right now… complaining about how they never get anything done because they are in meetings all day? What keeps them from being able to manage their schedule? If you were in their shoes, what would you do to improve […]
Dissecting The Meeting Frog
When you were in high school, if you took any sort of advanced biology courses, one of the projects you had was to dissect a frog. I’m sure you remember it well… Your teacher gave you a live frog, you had to kill it by sticking a needle in the base of its neck. Then […]
Attendee Diet: Trim 12 People From Your Meeting Waistline In 4 Weeks
Have you ever found yourself sitting through a conference call with 20+ people when you were actually doing working instead of paying attention to the meeting? POP QUIZ – You get called on… but you were not paying attention. What do you do: (A) Tell the moderator that you missed the question, ask them to repeat […]
Death to the Informational Meeting?
Al Pittampalli over at Work Awesome has started an interesting meeting edict: Cancel all further informational meetings! In an era of social media abundance, where so many rich methods of communication are everywhere (e-mail, recorded audio, recorded video, etc.) why are we still herding people together to hear policy updates? Meeting for the purpose of […]
