WANTED!! Help Stop these Meeting Villains
Look familiar? You’ve probably dealt with one or more of these bad meeting suspects before. Maybe we called them by different names or saw them in different forms, but either way we’ve all seen them. Putting Names To Faces They’ve interrupted your presentations, hijacked your discussions and played Angry Birds on their phones across the […]
Don’t Andy Bernard Your Meeting Plan
Did you catch the new season of The Office recently? Season 8 has started and we find out that (drum roll, please…) Andy Bernard is the new regional manager for Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton branch. And already we can learn a thing or two from Andy. Or rather, what not to do. Andy’s Plan I’ll set […]
We’re Not Alone – New Startups Agree That Meetings Can Be Fixed
As we’ve said before, LessMeeting was born out of a shared frustration with just how bad the meetings we’ve been in can be. We tried to find a solution but didn’t see anything that helped our problem. At the time products mostly addressed what we call “The 35,000 Foot Problem”, or how to use technology […]
How to Hold the Right Meeting – Part 3
Alright – time to wrap things up. In the third and final post of this series, we’ll look at Review Meetings and Sales Meetings. Visit Part 1 to learn about Status and Decision Making meetings, and Part 2 to brush up on Planning and Operational Meetings. Type 5 – Review/Evaluation Meetings: Example meeting types – […]
How to Hold the Right Meeting – Part 2
In the first post of this series – https://lessmeeting.com/2011/08/how-to-hold-right-meeting.html – we looked at how to make sure you’re not having the wrong meeting. We began by breaking down two of the most common meeting types: Status Meetings and Problem Solving Meetings. Today we’ll look at two new meeting types and how best to run them: […]
How to Hold the Right Meeting
Meeting problems occur across all sorts of meeting types. However, some problems are more prevalent in certain types of meetings. In addition, we have found that not having a clear understanding of the type of meeting you are holding in the first place will magnify the problems you are likely to experience. In the next […]
