Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

If your conference proposal has a speaking experience field, use that field to explain your expertise, authority, and credibility. These fields help the potential audience realize your session is the one they must attend, out of the entire conference. I want to be the reason people come to a conference. Am I always?

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

You want to present a talk, workshop, experience report at a conference. (Or, Decide which conference(s) to propose your content. I got the idea for this series from Chris Murman's talk at Agile 2019 and from all my shepherding for the Agile 20xx and XPxx conferences. (If About Conference Proposals. Define the Context.

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David A Fields

JULY 14, 2020

Your consulting firm has adjusted to the lack of in-person meetings, conferences, meals, and walk-the-halls opportunities. Since you can’t attract or court Belinda Buyalot in person, you’ve moved your consulting firm’s visibility-building, marketing, and business development efforts online. So has everyone else.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 27, 2020

I found the biggest change when I started to work remotely was how meetings changed. When we meet in a conference room, we can see each other. The cameras mimic how we meet in person. I see too many meetings (in-person or remote) where the people don't know what to expect. I've learned these tips over the years.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 30, 2015

Take responsibility for getting the most value out of the next conference you attend. By planning ahead and thinking strategically, a conference can generate sales, increase business, improve vendor relationships and initiate strategic partnerships. Five Reasons to Go to a Conference. Before the Conference.

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Markovitz Consulting

MAY 29, 2018

I doubt Netflix was thinking how Jim Womack would apply lean to their board meetings. But in a new article , the Harvard Business Review describes how the company reinvented board meetings by creating a better way to share information with its board of directors. Senior management responds to the questions prior to the meeting.

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Nash Consulting

MAY 6, 2020

The only thing worse than a poorly run meeting is a poorly run meeting filled with people who are behaving poorly. So how do you get people to bring their best selves to meetings? Run a great meeting. And we just happen to know a consulting firm than can come in and help you learn to run great meetings!)

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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

You rarely have the chance to quickly alter the culture of a group the way you do when you organize a retreat or a meeting. I’ve written four posts about off-sites, presentations and conferences. How to run a (useless) conference. But if you resist, you can make a huge difference. How to organize a retreat.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Attending a conference is a whir of activity — flying to a destination, engaging in several days of nonstop networking, and coming home to an inbox that has spiraled out of control in your absence. ” The conference has probably left you with business cards scattered in your briefcase, pockets, and travel bag.

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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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Seth Godin Blog

JANUARY 26, 2014

On behalf of the many who have suffered through pointless and painful conference calls, some general principles: When in doubt, don''t have one. 10 minutes is the maximum length of a conference call. That''s not a meeting and all the trappings of a conference call detract from the thing you were trying to do.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2018

If you knew about a technology that would help you improve organizational alignment, cut meeting times, and increase engagement in discussions, surely you’d use it all the time, right? Meetings Take Half as Long. Watch this very amusing “ conference call in real life ” video to see how ineffective these calls can be.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 18, 2022

The collocated Cambridge people often couldn't get a conference room. That meant they need to join meetings from their laptops. Since the company had “good technology” in the conferences rooms, the managers didn't want to pay for people to get a (duplicate) good audio/video setup in the office.

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Markovitz Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

They’re not ending their work from home policies, but increasingly higher ranking staff are coming back to the mothership, particularly for important meetings. When everyone is working from home and meetings are conducted by Zoom it’s easy to remember to bring everyone to the virtual table.

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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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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 27, 2020

I found the biggest change when I started to work remotely was how meetings changed. When we meet in a conference room, we can see each other. The cameras mimic how we meet in person. I see too many meetings (in-person or remote) where the people don't know what to expect. I've learned these tips over the years.

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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

A $30,000 software package is actually $3,000 worth of software plus $27,000 worth of meetings. And most clients are bad at meetings. As a result, so are many video developers, freelance writers, conference organizers, architects and lawyers. The crisp meeting is one of a series. It's driven by purpose and intent.

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Simon Associates

OCTOBER 12, 2022

I'm very pleased to announce that I will be speaking at the Enterprise Agility World Conference 2022: Where Science Meets Organizational Change. The central theme of the conference is enterprise agility and what tools are required today to support a healthy organization.

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Markovitz Consulting

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

They’re not ending their work from home policies, but increasingly higher ranking staff are coming back to the mothership, particularly for important meetings. When everyone is working from home and meetings are conducted by Zoom it’s easy to remember to bring everyone to the virtual table.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 11, 2024

I attended a meeting led by the VP of construction for a company for which I was the VP of marketing. I joined the meeting virtually from another part of the building via Microsoft Teams. After the meeting, he called me back into the conference room. The president of the company sat beside the VP in the same room.

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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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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

If you’ve ever joined more than three people on a Skype or Zoom conference call, I hope you’ll appreciate these tips, and perhaps share them: Sit close to the screen. Don’t eat during the meeting. Your face should fill most of it. Use an external microphone or headset. When you’re not talking, hit mute.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 12, 2022

For example, it can be hard to create the same dynamic during an online meeting since the majority of the meaning in our communication is conveyed via body language. Limited ability to see and interact with other people on a conference call reduces non-verbal communication methods such as physical posture, hand gestures, and use of space.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 10, 2017

Conferences, if you choose them wisely, can be one of the best ways to accelerate this process, since you can meet large numbers of people in just a few days. Here are five strategies you can use to identify the best conferences for you to attend this year and to make time for them on your schedule.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 5, 2013

I am pleased to announce the second annual Wine County Conference , to be held May 1st & 2nd, 2014. We have an exciting lineup of speakers for this year''s conference. For speaker bios, please check out Wine Country Conference Speakers. Last conference, we arranged wine tours. Stay an extra day and golf or travel.

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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

And we go to a conference to meet people and connect, and then spend most of our time hoping someone else will see us and care enough to meet us and connect. Lots of people go to the beach but very few get in the water. 3,000 students go to the football game to watch 20 of their peers play.

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 3, 2021

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. Then have every in-room participant: mute their microphone and speaker, dial into the video conference, and keep their camera on.

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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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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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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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Billable Percentage

MARCH 14, 2017

Here’s the quote: Meetings are expensive. Based on that comment, it’s become clear to me that too much of the time, we take a passive approach to meetings that waste everyone’s time and money. As such, I think it’s incumbent on us all to hold more effective meetings. Start on Time and End on Time.

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Alan Weiss

JUNE 9, 2021

How do conference centers and hotels lure back millions of dollars in convention business when organizations can meet virtually? The people who talk about “returning to normal” are those people who are going to be bringing up the rear in the new marketplaces.

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MishTalk

JUNE 19, 2015

Emergence Meeting Monday, Unscheduled ECB Conference Call Today There's an Emergency Meeting of Eurozone Leader on Monday to discuss Greece, but the ECB may very well act in advance. The mad dash and perhaps last dash for euros in Greece is on. Once ELA is removed, Greece will soon be forced to issue capital controls.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2018

You and about 20 of your coworkers are sitting around a crowded conference room table, discussing the details of some project. Others have tuned the meeting out, retreating to their laptops or phones. People hate to be excluded, so meeting organizers often invite anyone who might need to be involved to avoid hurt feelings.

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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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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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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2016

These days, most professionals work with clients or colleagues across the globe — which means you’re at a serious disadvantage if you limit your networking efforts to local industry meet-ups or inviting people out to coffee. How to Get the Most Out of a Conference. You and Your Team Series. Networking. Rebecca Knight.

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