Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

” It's too hard to find time to meet. We can't find a place to meet. If we're back in the office, we have no meeting rooms. Or, we have some remote people, so we need several “places” to meet and the technology to support all those places. There is not one type of hybrid team. We all have them.

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Markovitz Consulting

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Four-hour meetings? At a $500M footwear company I once worked with, the founder and CEO—long removed from his role product development—decided that he didn’t like a particular style his product team had designed, developed, and purchased. Long commutes? Low-value travel? Gone, gone, gone, and gone.

Boston Consulting Group 259

Boston Consulting Group Meeting Travel Productivity 259

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Generative AI will forever change the way meetings are conducted. In the near future, meetings will offer personalized content and purpose-driven expertise, while also serving as guardians against bias and promoting active learning.

Meeting 92

Meeting Efficiency Productivity Enterprise 92

Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 11, 2024

Leaders striving for a better workplace may suffer consequences In a recent post on LinkedIn from the Business & Management Consultants open group, a contributor posted, “A manager who challenges the boss and stands up for their team, despite risking their own career, is a true leader.” The president did nothing to stop the yelling.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

” For years, I explained that the more often the team or program could demo, the more the project or program could engage its stakeholders. The faster the team (the shortest blue feedback loops) releases a feature, the more often we can change the roadmap (in red) and the strategy (in green). Now, John Cutler has changed my mind.

How To 125

How To Efficiency Meeting Productivity 125

Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC

MARCH 28, 2023

After months of conducting industry research, several work sessions, debates, conversations, and meetings with industry leaders as well as with front-line team members, a client’s new strategic plan is complete. They’ve received board approval.

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Industry Leadership Research Meeting 116

The Management Centre

APRIL 9, 2024

Believe you me, your future team and self will thank you for it. Achievement through others Am I comfortable achieving results through the efforts of my team rather than solely through my own work? Will I be comfortable relinquishing a degree of control to empower my team? Do you feel the pull towards leadership?

Management 52

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 29, 2024

Do you find meetings with your team disintegrate into dysfunction and chaos, resulting in ineffective decision-making, inadequate solutions, and team members — including yourself — with deflated morale? Team” is a misnomer for these bodies; “group” is more accurate. To turn your group into a team, you need curiosity.

Meeting 75

Meeting Groups Productivity Emotional Intelligence 75

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Digital tools and meetings may be the only way some team members can keep in touch. On a hybrid project, communication and coordination become both more critical and more challenging.

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Management Strategy Strategy Strategy& 92

LSA Global

MARCH 21, 2024

Strategies to Minimize Meetings in the Workplace Endless meetings at work can impede productivity, decrease employee engagement , and stifle innovation. New manager training participants often complain about being trapped in a cycle of back-to-back meetings, leaving little time to lead, manage, or coach their teams.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

However, your team won't all be back in the same time and space. That means you don't have a collocated team. You also don't have a fully remote (nebula) team. You also don't have a fully remote (nebula) team. You have a hybrid team—specifically, a satellite team. See Your Satellite Teams Traps.

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Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC

JUNE 20, 2023

Four times in the last two weeks, I’ve been asked to help a client or their management team hone their communication skills so they better understand one another and so their meetings and strategic planning update sessions are ‘tighter’ and more productive. In various ways each client said, “Help! We’re drowning!

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Meeting Productivity Management Development 112

Makarios Consulting

MARCH 2, 2023

The answer can be ‘great results’ if the team works with each other in a way that builds a high level of trust and respect. Our experience has shown time and again that when a leadership team lacks trust and respect, meetings do little more than exacerbate existing tensions and conflicts. They were aligned for the greater good.

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PM Alliance

AUGUST 25, 2023

The rise of long-term hybrid work arrangements has renewed the need for accountability within project teams. To restore a holistic culture of accountability and ensure consistent project success, team leaders need to adjust their engagement strategies, whether team members are in the office, at home, in a satellite location, or on the road.

Management 89

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 18, 2022

I'm seeing different kinds of “hybrid remote” teams these days. I already wrote about satellite teams (see Five Tips for Your Successful (Hybrid Remote) Satellite Team ). Now, I'm also seeing cluster teams. Cluster teams have people in several locations, with collocated people in some locations.

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Conference Video Agile Meeting 107

The Management Centre

JUNE 5, 2023

Meetings can be fun, empowering and a way to enable new thinking. We often hear from participants on our training programmes that they actually dread team meetings. For managers, being able to put in place effective team meetings is an essential part of managing people. Connection? Communication? All of the above?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2023

If you want to make a good impression and gauge what a colleague actually thinks of you, should you meet in-person or over videoconference? In those cases, setting a meeting on Zoom might level out the playing field, allowing you to be as aware of your impression as someone who is feeling more secure.

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Research Meeting Management 85

Harvard Business

MARCH 5, 2024

Strategic inefficiencies play a surprising role in the success of technology acquisitions. Research involving hundreds of organizations and interviews with executives reveals that certain inefficiencies in post-merger integration (PMI) can actually propel growth.

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Girard Training Solutions

APRIL 17, 2024

Now that you’re a manager, your job is to get results through your team members and guide them to perform at their best. However, many managers struggle to get their team committed to doing their work to the best of their abilities. Why does this happen? Transitioning into a managerial role requires acquiring a new set of skills.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 19, 2022

The concept of virtual meetings is fairly simple. You host a meeting that would otherwise be held physically via an online platform, most probably Teams. One may assume that the etiquette that applies to in-person meetings would also apply to virtual meetings. This would not be completely incorrect.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 8, 2022

Regardless of what company or industry you work in, you will most likely have one-on-one meetings with your manager. Because of the importance of one-on-one meetings with your manager, it is helpful to be intentional about planning these meetings. This article will help you get the most out meetings with your manager!

Management 88

Management How To Meeting Industry 88

Makarios Consulting

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Such a situation is healthy if it meets the following criteria: E veryone leaves the discussion aligned on the final decision. Do you define conflict in the workplace with incidents of hostility, simmering resentment, or words spoken in anger? toward the other … and which leads to disruption of effective work and morale in the workplace.”

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Meeting Resources Conference Retail 88

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

As a former consultant, attending and facilitating meetings was probably where I spent most of my time. With the lack of physical human interaction, scheduling meetings was the mutually agreed way to even have a simple conversation. Like many of you, I get frustrated by unproductive meetings. Working from home is the new normal.

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Epicflow

APRIL 19, 2024

We’ll dwell on the team training and onboarding in a separate section. Evaluate the results of the POC based on predefined criteria and objectives. Assess the software’s ability to meet your organization’s needs, improve resource management processes, and achieve desired outcomes. Proof of Concept. Preparation.

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The Management Centre

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

This co-creation approach has some real benefits – participants are engaged early on, and we can understand exactly what their management challenges are and ensure the training is tailored to meet their needs. We also find out what their teams are like, and what approach might help them best. Things to change. And the result?

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Management Engineering Training Training 94

Johanna Rothman

JULY 11, 2023

Tim, a C-Level leader, loves his skip-level meetings. He feels the meetings offer him a chance to connect with people he doesn't normally see. Sharon, a different C-Level leader, never conducts skip-level meetings. She feels that those meetings might cause her managers to feel unsafe, as if she doesn't trust them.

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Rick Conlow

APRIL 29, 2021

However, in chaotic times communication is of greater importance to strengthen team relationships and results. And you cannot allow a remote team to be an excuse for poorer performances. Use a system like Zoom, WebEx, or Microsoft Teams to keep in touch. Learn how to do it so you are not clunking around during a meeting.

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The Management Centre

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Fun activities to include in your online team meetings. We all know how enjoyable it is when we work within a close and supportive team. A team where people know and trust each other, where energy is high and the team solves problems together, spots opportunities together and creates new approaches together.

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Meeting Energy Examples Travel 98

Harmonious Workplaces

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

I interviewed with several members of the team, including the parent of one of the executives. I allowed my typical goatee to return, and, on the first meeting with the team, this individual grimaced and said they didn’t remember me having a beard and that it made me look very old. The interview ended. Wish you all the best!

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 14, 2022

I'm in meetings all the time. Then I have to relay the ideas back to the team. He had no time to spend on creating the environment for the team—he was doing work I normally categorize as the team's work. “How many of those meetings can you delegate to team members? Or even the entire team itself?”

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Leadership Management Efficiency Meeting 79

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Project leaders must make sure that online meetings take place according to a clear, consensual schedule and that all members of the team are aware of what they are expected to do. Although commentators have long predicted a shift towards remote working, the Covid-19 pandemic has certainly driven the point home.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 12, 2023

As consultants, we are required and recommended to take notes for the meetings we attend. Meetings in a ‘professional setting’ on the other hand, can be complex – they can be long and very detail-oriented. Meetings in a ‘professional setting’ on the other hand, can be complex – they can be long and very detail-oriented.

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

The number of companies adopting and managers leading remote work teams has increased significantly. Now however, controversy about the productivity challenges of leading remote work teams confront organizational assumptions about its effectiveness. The COVID-19 pandemic initiated this trend.

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Leadership Training Training Productivity 101

Girard Training Solutions

APRIL 23, 2024

Eric and Ethan dig into his background in management, consulting, and leadership development and training, the one thing managers should know to be successful, and what it means to create a psychological contract between a manager and their team. Ethan is the CEO and a leadership consultant at Nash Consulting in the Seattle, Washington, area.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 2, 2020

This situation reminds me of a class I took during my MBA at George Washington University, the Consulting Abroad Project, where a team of students had to work remotely with a company located in another continent, which in our case was South America, specifically Peru. Assign each team member a specific role. Send a confirmation e-mail.

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