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 CC Your Way to Better Meetings

So you’ve signed up for LessMeeting and don’t know what to do next? You see a bunch of information about an Outlook plugin, but you don’t have Outlook! What are you supposed to do?Fortunately there are two alternatives to the Outlook plugin for generating meetings: CC or forward each of your calendar events to cc@lessmeeting.com […]

The Definitive Guide to Meeting Minutes

People want better meeting minutes! New users end up at LessMeeting from a variety of sources looking to solve a range of problems.  The two most common topics that bring the majority of traffic to our website are:   Preparing agendas before the meeting Writing minutes during the meeting Sometimes we take for granted that these […]

Ending Meetings Early: Maybe Not Always A Good Thing

This week I met with my project team to try to diffuse an important issue. I scheduled a 30 minute meeting with the following agenda: Well, a few minutes in one of my colleagues asked, “Why don’t we just do this…”, an option that was not even thought of originally, but one that ultimately made […]

Simplifying Things: Tutorial and Moving Notes

“Can you give us a tutorial?“  “I’m having trouble moving notes around?“ Once again you asked and we listened.  LessMeeting updates keep coming – here are two new features that we’re excited to have rolled out over the holiday weekend.New Tutorial Feel like you’re not utilizing LessMeeting to its full potential but don’t have time […]