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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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Leadership Development – bringing the team together

The Management Centre

In this interview, Rebecca Cooper, Head of People and Development at ACT Training shares her experience of what effective leadership development looks like in action. We were looking for a programme to develop the leadership skills and philosophy of the team. This has directly improved efficiency in decision making. =mc:

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Is Stress Killing Productivity? Here's How Leaders Improve Efficiency & Wellbeing

Organizational Talent Consulting

For example, someone on your team who is feeling down enters a meeting. Also, we are more connected to each other than we may recognize, and stress is an emotional contagion. Evidence suggests that co-workers can spread stress within a workgroup. The following short NPR video discusses how emotions are contagious.

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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.

Meeting 52
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How to Get 100 Meetings

The Fearless Marketer

But instead of discovering how to actually develop relationships with prospective clients we tend to amp up our visibility, hoping someone notices us, responds to us, and hires us. They consistently meet with others individually. They set up meetings over coffee, talk on the phone, or have Zoom conversations. Why is that?

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Organizational Development for Small Business: What You Need to Know

Asamby Consulting

One of the most critical challenges facing small business owners is organizational development. In this blog post, we will explore what organizational development is and how small business owners can leverage it to achieve long-term success. What is Organizational Development? Small businesses are the backbone of the economy.

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Netflix Brings Lean Thinking to Board Meetings

Markovitz Consulting

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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