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Managing Meetings: How to Drive Productivity and Success

Tom Spencer

Meetings can either be a powerful catalyst for collaboration and decision-making or a drain on time and productivity. Whether you are in consulting, strategy, operations, or product management, the ability to manage meetings effectively is a crucial skill that can significantly impact the success of your endeavors.

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Virtual Meetings: Eight Rules of Etiquette

Tom Spencer

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. Make a conscious effort to control your gaze during meetings.

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8 Essential Project Management Documents You Need to Know About

Epicflow

Project management involves creating lots of documentation. If you look into project management standards, you will find at least a dozen of various plans, multiple types of reports, and numerous other documents. A business case is a document that helps decision-makers determine whether a project is worth the investment.

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From meeting-heavy to essential meetings only

Asamby Consulting

Reform your team’s meeting habits to boost productivity and business impact as a CEO (a post-pandemic approach). If you work at a small business or growing company, you'll eventually face the problem of too many meetings. A scenario like this leaves people feeling their time is being wasted in meetings, which makes them disengaged.

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New Meets Traditional: How Project Teams Benefit From More Options 

PM Alliance

Whether it’s how your group comes together to collaborate on project budget development or the systems you use to maintain stakeholder engagement, a willingness to blend new and old methods gives you wider access to options that can lead to the perfect strategy for your unique situation.

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How to Tame Uncertainty of Research and Development: Tips on Managing R&D Projects

Epicflow

Research and development projects involve the process of discovering new ideas, technologies, and solutions to create new products (or services) or improve existing ones. In addition, changing requirements are commonplace for research and development projects. Will the developed product satisfy customers and be relevant in the market?

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The Lockdown Unlocks Real Work

Markovitz Consulting

Four-hour meetings? Elaborately defined, documented, and monitored processes and procedures? 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.