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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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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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10 Strategies to Re-Energise Virtual Meetings

Tom Spencer

Although virtual meetings have become a norm of working life post COVID-19, there is much that still feels strange about them. Below are 10 tips on how to re-energise virtual meetings, to ensure they remain a productive tool for businesses and employees working from home. Enable connection. Create common ground. Why are we here?

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Prepare Your Facility Relocation Project Team for a Productive Site Assessment

PM Alliance

Before committing to a new location, developing the move schedule, and finalizing the project plan , you should conduct a site assessment to identify any changes that need to be made to meet your needs and be ready for move-in. Mobilize internal subject matter experts, from production line supervisors to maintenance personnel and engineers.

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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. Once fun and collaborative workplace cultures can easily become a drag of meetings.

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New Meets Traditional: How Project Teams Benefit From More Options 

PM Alliance

Showcasing your organization’s commitment to innovation and collaboration gets a boost when you add in the career growth and development opportunities associated with in-person mentoring, access to resources that are more difficult to digitize—textile and raw material samples, first-hand exposure to the production area, etc.—and

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The Lockdown Unlocks Real Work

Markovitz Consulting

According to BCG’s analysis , productivity at companies that have shifted to remote work has increased between 15% and 40%. Four-hour meetings? Elaborately defined, documented, and monitored processes and procedures? Long commutes? Low-value travel? Obviously, working from home presents a different set of challenges.