Work Meetings: To Meet or Not to Meet? That Is the Question
Clients ask me all the time, “Should we have a meeting about this?” Yet those same people feel that they are in too many meetings and, often, that they are not using their time well. They tell me that they have work to do but can’t get it done because they are in meetings all [...]
Managing Work Meetings: Lose — But Don’t Lose — the Lesson
Facilitating can be a messy business. Anyone who has spent any time managing meetings has run into those moments when things seem to have gotten out of control. As facilitators or meeting managers these moments can get very uncomfortable, even scary. We tend to assume that we should always know what is happening and be [...]
Facilitation Skills: What to Do About Bad Meetings?
Many people think that their work meetings are either out of control or a waste of time. Worse, they feel that they can’t fix the problem because they are not in charge. But in fact, anyone can positively impact the meetings they attend. No matter where you sit (metaphorically) at the table, you have the [...]