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We've filed these posts as ‘30 Days of Better Meetings’:

Better Meetings Day #19: How to Give and Receive Critical Feedback after a Meeting

by Mikal Lewis, 10:30 am on June 16, 2010 | 0 Comments

So a meeting has taken place and your friend or colleague has said or done something that you really think you should give them feedback on, but how to do it without upsetting them? Good thing 30 days of Better Meetings is here. To give feedback here is a tactic I’ve learned: State one thing [...]

Better Meetings Day #18: Making Webinars Worth It

by Harry Waisbren, 10:00 am on June 15, 2010 | 0 Comments

I had a fantastic conversation recently when connecting with a new Qworky Community Member, Shelley Ryan of Killer Webinars, on the phone in light of a suggestion from Cathy Larkin (aka @CathyWebSavvyPR) on Twitter. Ryan is a consultant for all things related to online meetings, with a keen focus on webinars. Webinars were not something that [...]

Better Meetings Day #17: Create the Perfect (Brain)storm

by Annie, 10:26 am on June 14, 2010 | 0 Comments

According to Wikipedia, a perfect storm is “an expression that describes an event where a rare combination of circumstances will aggravate a situation drastically”.  Then, there’s the perfect (brain)storm.  It is an event where a rare combination of ideas will develop a path or solution for an opportunity to solve for a problem or create [...]

Better Meetings Day #16: Ice Breakers Are Meant to Break the Ice

by Annie, 3:49 pm on June 13, 2010 | 0 Comments

Grab a bag of Skittles.  Pass them around and have everyone in your meeting take a few.  Then, it’s time to break the ice. When was the last time someone kicked off a meeting with an icebreaker?  Probably back in high school or college, right? An icebreaker is a great activity to create a positive [...]

Better Meetings Day #15: Questioning Virtual vs. Face to Face

by Harry Waisbren, 10:57 pm on June 12, 2010 | 0 Comments

We have gotten some really fantastic comments on our recent posts about both online “virtual” meetings and those that are face to face, developing the conversation–on the blog and on Twitter–in a direction I did not necessarily expect. Expanding the Discussion This began after I first posted about meeting virtually online, on which Jeff Hurt [...]

Better Meetings Day #14: You Sell More Ideas by Teasing

by Mikal Lewis, 3:28 am on June 10, 2010 | 0 Comments

I’ve got one word for you . . . Plastics. There is a great future in plastics. Will you think about it? Of course you will. Why? Because you’ve been hooked with that timeless teaser. Research shows there are seven types of Meetings and the purpose of many of them is to persuade- or in [...]

Better Meetings Day #13: Time for Questions

by Mikal Lewis, 3:30 pm on June 9, 2010 | 0 Comments

So you’re going to have a meeting, and this time your meeting requires a pitch or presentation. You may not think of this until the day of- but here’s a question: When is a good time for questions? Common practice says the time for questions is during or after a presentation. However you might want [...]

Better Meetings Day #12: Find the ‘We’

by Mikal Lewis, 3:48 pm on June 8, 2010 | 0 Comments

Interpreted from ‘Business Writing and Communication’ applied to meetings. No we’re not talking about Nintendo Wii. Even though, those were pretty hard to find a few Christmas’ ago. Finding the ‘We’ is all about finding identifying the shared goals between yourself and your meeting participants and finding a ‘participant’ focused way of orienting the meeting [...]