“Indescribable, interminable horror.” Such was the response to my casual “How’s your annual Sales Conference going?” asked of a friend attending her Fortune 500 company meeting. What a shame! Why is […]
Meetings
How do you keep the strategic plan from dying on the shelf?
The key to keeping it alive is simple. Follow-up. One of the questions we always get is, how do we connect our vision to our day-to-day work? They have to […]
Should You Axe Your Meeting Agenda?
If you ask the smartest and most experienced leaders what’s one thing that makes their meetings successful — most will tell you it’s having a clear agenda. But contrary to […]
Different Behavior Means Better Meetings
In our last blog post on this topic, we talked about the difference between a meeting that is organized around an agenda and one that is oriented around outcomes. In […]
Six Steps To Make Your Meetings More Effective
Last week, we took a look at the way agenda-driven meetings may be robbing your company of authentic conversations. In this week’s post, we offer six approaches you should consider […]
Why Agenda Driven Meetings Don’t Work
This month, we begin a series which will run every Wednesday over the next four weeks and focus on the topic of How Consensus May Be Hurting Your Company. For […]
