Ling- English
Effective Time Management for Leaders: Beyond 'Keep It Brief'
Time management isn't about counting minutes—it's about making moments count.
meetings
EME
100 recommendations for making meetings more beautiful
Members of the House of Beautiful Business community shared ideas on how to improve meetings. Before you join your next meeting, have a read-through of what they came up with. See what the repetition is saying (or not saying). Even better: before you schedule your next, ask yourself: does
EME
The CIA's 8-point plan for disrupting meetings and conferences
From the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual, here is an 8-point plan for disrupting meetings and conferences. You will probably recognize some of these from your own circumstances: (2) Make ‘speeches’. Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your ‘points’ by long anecdotes and accounts
EME
The strength of weak ties
Perhaps you do this already with your team: you take the first few minutes of a meeting to check in, sometimes as a group and sometimes in random pairs or trios in breakout rooms. Just a few minutes to chitchat - about anything but work, like what would happen randomly at
Ling- English
The medium is the massage: on doing the same expecting a different result
James Shelley on his blog: Put the same group of people in another room. Give them pipe cleaners, Play-Doh, a stage, a guitar, and LEGO. Ask them to develop an idea. How different will the ideas be that emerge from the two different rooms? In other words: How do
Ling- English
Holding a meeting of people from different cultures
In one of the People and Business Management workshops that I facilitate we ask participants to outline how they would approach their first meeting as the manager of a multicultural team. I'm always pleasantly surprised by the imagination and inclusiveness of the responses. This article in the Harvard
Ling- English
There's nothing more toxic to productivity than a meeting
Here's [sic] a few reasons why: If you absolutely MUST have a meeting, follow these rules.
meetings
When you absolutely must have a meeting, follow three simple rules
1. Never have a meeting without a clear agenda. 2. Invite as few people as possible. 3. Set a 30 minute timer. When it rings, meeting's over. via
Teaching and Learning
Go ahead, be stupid!
At the workplace, at home, at school, the only stupid question is the question that is not asked, the only stupid comment is the comment that is not made, and the only stupid idea or suggestion is the one that is not shared. So, go ahead, by all means... be
Information richness
Plans for forum on distracted driving
during which participants will likely be multitasking on their blackberries and iphones... NYTimes.com.
Work and the workplace
Meetings: the practical alternative to work
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Teaching and Learning
Cellphones in the classroom
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