The Fearless Marketer

JANUARY 20, 2020

I’ve been writing a lot about the importance of setting up meetings with prospective clients and those who can lead you to prospective clients. How to Get 100 Meetings. More Meetings = More Clients. But what do you actually say in such a meeting that will move things forward and lead to more valuable connections?

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Nash Consulting

MAY 6, 2020

How to Have Effective and Enjoyable Workplace Meetings This meeting started 10 minutes late. Jerry has his head down on the conference room table. Can we just get this meeting started already? I literally have no clue what we’re meeting about. This meeting has officially sucked my soul right out of me.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

After flying out to Bangalore to pitch their idea, Pratt and Joshi were surprised to be given a meeting with the whole board of directors and went on to explain that their GDM would allow Infosys to undercut its competitors. INFOSYS CONSULTING CULTURE. As such, humility is a core part of the Infosys culture. Infosys Blogs.

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 3, 2021

Before March 2020, business culture was heavily slanted toward in-person, in-office work. Knowledge workers laughed at bathroom Zoom calls and weird camera angles, but we are now as good at meeting and interacting on Web-based meeting platforms as when everyone was in the same virtual room. Manage Discussion. If not, start one.

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Markovitz Consulting

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Louis last week at the Global Lean Leadership Conference. It’s a small conference—only about 150 people—consisting of companies that have embraced Paul Akers’s 2 Second Lean philosophy. The tone was dramatically different from any other conference I’ve been to. I spent two days in St. It was a way of life.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 15, 2024

Active engagement with the design community through attendance at industry conferences, participation in online forums, and following influential designers can help designers to acquire valuable insights. Staying on top of the latest trends is not merely about a quest for novelty.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

2024 Healthcare Project Delivery Conference January, 30-31, San Diego, USA This year’s conference will focus on implementing developments in procurement, design, financing, and O&M in healthcare projects. The participants will learn how healthcare providers overcome resource constraints and deliver new developments.

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Makarios Consulting

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Some talk about verbal “arm-wrestling” in the conference room where the opponents are also close colleagues, or ferocious disagreements that produce outstanding new approaches and ideas. Such a situation is healthy if it meets the following criteria: E veryone leaves the discussion aligned on the final decision. Voices may be raised.

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IMC USA

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Moreover, in July a personal trip to Russia gave me the opportunity to meet with four IMC members from that country. In early October in San Diego at our conference we celebrated IMC USA’s 50 th anniversary. In Milan a few weeks ago, I attended the International Council of Management Consulting Institutes (ICMCI) annual conference.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Steven Rogelberg, a professor at UNC Charlotte, has spent decades researching workplace meetings and reports that many of them are a waste of time. Because the vast majority of managers aren’t trained in or reviewed on effective meeting management.

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Makarios Consulting

MARCH 2, 2023

Gather a company’s leaders together in a conference room to discuss current challenges, new opportunities, tough issues, and the state of the business, and what do you get? 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.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The closer to the left your products are, the more your managers might be open to changing their behaviors and the culture. TL; DR: “Stop making it harder” is a culture problem. A half-dozen of us sat around the conference table. The small-c team culture was great. The closer to the right?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

In any collaborative work environment, the meeting is the main component of office life. But although meetings are the primary mechanism through which decisions get made, they are also the standard complaint of many executives. In 2013, Julian Birkinshaw and I found that knowledge workers spend 67% of their time in meetings.

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1 to 1

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

When does hustle culture become abusive and dangerous? Toxic company cultures are all too common in modern businesses. One in five Americans have left a job in the past five years due to bad company culture, according to a recent SHRM report on workplace culture. SK: A lot of companies have mission statements.

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Makarios Consulting

APRIL 12, 2023

Fifteen years have passed, but I (Tim) still remember the meeting as if it was yesterday. A dozen senior leaders were sitting around the conference table. Every employee had a copy of the values on his or her desk and the values were discussed regularly at meetings to keep them front and center.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 2, 2018

But the most common, and perhaps the greatest, barrier to customer centricity is the lack of a customer-centric organizational culture. At most companies the culture remains product-focused or sales-driven, or customer centricity is considered a priority only for certain functions such as marketing.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

“Sometimes, when I sit in meetings, especially ones in which people don’t seem engaged, I calculate the cost in staff time. So many meetings are lost opportunities.” They should, according to these statistics on meetings: Organizations hold more than 3 billion meetings each year. Daniel Day/Getty Images.

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Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The Conference Board’s “Executive Coaching Survey” (2018): This survey found that 68% of organizations use internal coaching programs, and 47% use external coaching programs. 10 Companies that Exemplify the Value of a Great Coach A handful of companies do an outstanding job of creating a positive culture through coaching.

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

Bottom-line, companies with people-first culture led by Servant Leadership principles outperform their competitors. Employees who take advantage of the situation may neglect or avoid participating in virtual meetings, discussions, or projects. Schedule regular check-ins, team meetings, and one-on-one discussions to stay connected.

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Seth Godin Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Culture shifts. But having one confers status in some circles. Mink coats used to confer some sort of prestige in some circles. Perhaps a master of the universe can point out that he can be at the meeting tomorrow simply by hopping on his private jet. Is it still a luxury good? Is it still a luxury good?

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Kates Kesler

JULY 6, 2020

We facilitated a meeting in April 2020 for a team of ten people. In the past such a meeting would typically have the eight co-located members sitting together in a conference room and the other two on video. The pandemic meant that for this meeting everyone was joining from home.

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Markovitz Consulting

OCTOBER 3, 2017

A reader questioned my post about the lean conference I recently attended where everyone was a rabid adherent of Paul Akers’s 2 Second Lean philosophy. True to the spirit of lean, the companies at this conference have placed development of human potential at the core of their thinking. He has a point. Not all the time, but sometimes.

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Melissa Agnes

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Virtual communication can breed misunderstandings and yet how many of your meetings are virtual? The way in which leadership can use this information to form stronger connections with their teams during conference calls, virtual meetings, email communications, and more. Do you see where I’m going with this?

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Rick Conlow

MARCH 7, 2021

Whether we fly overseas, make a phone call, or interact through a virtual conference. We can meet new people from different cultures with ease. Yet, it is not quite so easy to melt away the distrust and prejudice that sometimes accompanies cross-cultural interaction. Cultural norms. Furthermore, we lose empathy.

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Halo Psych

OCTOBER 2, 2023

If you’ve ever heard me talk at conferences, or on podcasts, you’ll know I feel strongly about the role of the people manager. This is about setting timelines and establishing goals which then need to meet quality, quantity, and service standards. In my experience, they can make working life great or extremely difficult.

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Rick Conlow

MARCH 29, 2021

Let’s get to where the rubber meets the road. A conference board study outlines how 70% of employees are not motivated toward the company goals. Instead they create a complacent, critical or combative work culture. Managers often miss the greatest leadership principle of all-time. There is so much noise out there!

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Harvard Business

APRIL 29, 2016

In the ideal meeting, all attendees participate, contributing diverse points of view and thinking together to reach new insights. But few meetings live up to this ideal, in large part because not everyone is able to effectively contribute. What happens: A program manager calls a meeting to think through a resourcing issue.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2016

The strength of cross-cultural teams is their diversity of experience, perspective, and insight. Participation norms differ greatly across cultures. The fix: To ensure everyone is contributing, leaders of cross-cultural teams should establish clear communication protocols. Paul Garbett FOR HBR.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2016

First of all, communication styles vary across cultures; so, too, does the extent to which people socialize or get down to business at the start of a meeting. Understand the cross-cultural makeup of your team. lived and worked in Europe, and are anything but prototypical Korean in their cultural style?

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 15, 2022

Are they then supposed to return to meet in the office on Thursday?” ” Several teams asked questions about meeting rooms and the availability of those rooms. They knew from experience that there were not enough meeting rooms for everyone to meet. Are they supposed to wait and travel on Monday night or Tuesday?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The most significant culture shift today for marketing teams is adopting an analytical marketing approach. At SAS, where I work, we’ve built an analytical culture by focusing on three approaches. The stories that you tell inform customers and employees alike about your culture. Using Data to Change the Status Quo.

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Clarity Consultants

AUGUST 24, 2023

How Do Instructional Design Firms Stay Current with Technology Encourage Continuous Learning At instructional design firms, a culture of continuous learning is not just encouraged but fully embraced. Team members are encouraged to explore new methodologies and technologies by attending industry conferences, webinars, and workshops.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

When most people think of power, they think of the person in the conference room with the most authority. Most academic and corporate cultures are based around this concept of formal authority. During a meeting with senior executives, all the executives would look at the CEO to see what he or she thought.

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Business Consulting Agency

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Engage with potential customers, gather feedback, and solicit insights to refine your business concept and tailor your products or services to meet the evolving demands of your target market.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 22, 2018

It was Noelle’s third scheduled meeting to review financials, and again she was alone in a conference room waiting for people to show up. No one seemed interested in hearing a financial update—the few who had shown up in previous meetings were just short of hostile. She recounted her meeting with Marshall.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 11, 2022

Fair and robust talent calibration meetings present a meaningful solution for identifying the right leadership. These meetings create an intentional space for leaders to discuss and align on the performance and potential of the talent in the leadership pipeline. Establish meeting ground rules before you get started.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2016

A big part of that success hinges on the virtual meeting. To make sure that your virtual meetings are adding value and velocity to your projects, you need to do three things: Focus on relationships. The quality of the relationships that enter a meeting determines the quality of the conversations that will occur during the meeting.

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