Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Well-run meetings allow you and your team to clarify issues, set direction, and move objectives forward. And yet there never seems to be enough time to properly plan and execute meetings. Perhaps it’s time to rethink whether you should even be leading your own meetings. They’re essential to your team’s success.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 25, 2022

We'd gone through the painful exercise in Part 1 of deciding what we were not going to do any longer. When you meet with the person you need to lay off, have a box of tissues readily available. Instead, consider these ideas: Maintain your one-on-one meetings. I had a script from HR, as in Part 2. And I still felt terrible.

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Efficiency Management Guidelines Exercises 89

Tom Spencer

MAY 17, 2020

Exercise Regularly. If you have 14 free hours in a day, you should spend 1 hour exercising in the morning in exchange for 13 high-focus, high-productivity work hours. The key is to do it before work – when nothing can pop up to prevent you from exercising. Running and weightlifting are staples in my morning routine.

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Productivity Exercises Energy Journal 99

Brimstone Consulting

APRIL 4, 2023

At the first meeting with Bob, after establishing some initial rapport and detailing the guardrails of confidentiality and goal-setting for the work, Bob opened up and began to talk about what he had been struggling with in recent months. Any exercise? Was he working efficiently or just working hard?

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 15, 2019

But That's Not Efficient, Right? So many managers are stuck in resource efficiency thinking they do not understand this one key idea: If you ask the team to collaborate as a team and ask them to focus on one thing at a time, achieving what done means for that thing, you can get the benefits of any agile approach.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Over the past two years, we’ve taken 75 executives through this exercise. Less than 3% in our sample meet this standard. Even if you don’t care about data per se, you still must do your work effectively and efficiently. In so doing, we’ve collected 75 data quality measurements.

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The Management Centre

APRIL 8, 2024

Every penny matters, because by being efficient and effective it means we can support more and more people. It’s been great to see how our managers applied their learning in real-life scenarios, from utilising tools like the Boston Matrix to customer mapping exercises. =mc: It also had to be practical so we took a toolkit approach.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Over the past two years, we’ve taken 75 executives through this exercise. Less than 3% in our sample meet this standard. Even if you don’t care about data per se, you still must do your work effectively and efficiently. In so doing, we’ve collected 75 data quality measurements.

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Data Meeting Company Government 28

The Management Centre

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

When you are managing at a distance, these one-to-one meetings become even more important. Turn up on time and don’t cancel the virtual meeting unless absolutely necessary. Do you have any ideas to help us work more effectively or efficiently? Are you giving yourself proper breaks in the day to eat, exercise and get fresh air?

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2017

Sveta had a keen attention to detail and placed a high value on being efficient. At her next team meeting, Sveta shared a table with behaviors specific to her management style, what her actions meant, and how her team could best work with her. As a new manager, you can recreate this exercise with your own team.

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1 to 1

AUGUST 30, 2021

In the B2B space, where relationships reign supreme, sales organizations found effective and efficient ways to conduct business with a digital-first approach that’s efficient, effective, and won’t go away any time soon. Embedded AI can help users understand preferred engagement channels and surface missing contacts.

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The Management Centre

JULY 5, 2023

Here at =mc we encourage every participant we meet on our programmes to get in touch if they have specific issues they want to follow up on. Perhaps you could bring this up in a team meeting: a bit of group work / discussion on how we solve problems, and what questions are useful to ask and answer when we face repeating or common challenges.

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Management Exercises Meeting Engineering 52

Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 20, 2023

You can use the following questions in a one-to-one meeting or as an anonymous pulse survey with a team. Practicing small acts of self-control, like exercise followed by periods of rest, builds self-control capacity. A great way to gain perspective into psychological safety is by getting curious.

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The Management Centre

APRIL 22, 2020

When you are managing at a distance, these one-to-one meetings become even more important. Turn up on time and don’t cancel the virtual meeting unless absolutely necessary. Do you have any ideas to help us work more effectively or efficiently? Are you giving yourself proper breaks in the day to eat, exercise and get fresh air?

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2018

Then we administered a 10-minute mindfulness exercise and afterward asked them to continue brainstorming the creative task. In meetings, for example, kick off with a brief settling-in period. By taking a deep breath, invite employees to leave past concerns and future worries aside until the meeting is over.

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The Management Centre

MAY 4, 2022

When you are confident that you are right, it may help if you stick to your views and meet objections head on. A person with an amiable preference will tend to approach problem-solving as a collaborative exercise, and will be supportive to people who are less experienced. Precise and considered. Great at planning. Nit picker.

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Resources Exercises Energy Efficiency 98

The Management Centre

APRIL 22, 2020

When you are managing at a distance, these one-to-one meetings become even more important. Turn up on time and don’t cancel the virtual meeting unless absolutely necessary. Do you have any ideas to help us work more effectively or efficiently? Are you giving yourself proper breaks in the day to eat, exercise and get fresh air?

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Development Meeting Resources Management 59

Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2017

One of the conundrums of ethical decision making is that many moral decisions that are quite straightforward — even easy — to resolve in a classroom or during training exercises seem far more difficult to successfully resolve when confronted during actual day-to-day decision making.

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Ethics Training Training Exercises 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

For example, leaders at IBM , Medtronic , and Microsoft have sent their people out to meet customers and see their products in use. And when we charged people to pay to sit down at a meeting, another team member had to borrow Goldfish to get a chair. As in all our empathy exercises, we ended with a team debriefing. Design that.

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Energy Exercises Groups Meeting 39

Harvard Business

APRIL 11, 2018

It’s hard to know if we’re really making efficient use of our time. While I encourage you to do your own time-tracking exercise, if you don’t have the time for that (ha!), In my time-tracking exercise, I counted my time under multiple categories if it legitimately filled both criteria. MirageC/Getty Images.

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Kai Davis

MARCH 6, 2019

I’ve yet to see more than a handful that meets the requirements of the Project Design Tetrahedron: Fast. How can you efficiently move from freelancer to influencer ? Picking a target market is an exercise to make it easier for you to know what opportunities to focus on. There are shortcuts. Predictable Results. Pick Three).

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Marketing Efficiency Consulting Exercises 40

Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 7, 2023

Examples could include speaking up in meetings, holding a door for someone, smiling, or greeting someone by name when walking down the hall. Company cultures centered on efficiency thinking have flooded the marketplace with low-cost, widely available products and resulted in tremendous waste and social issues (Brown, 2009).

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LSA Global

JANUARY 3, 2023

To meet its long-term objectives, this fast growing Biotech client needed senior executives to better align overall strategies with individual and team priorities as measured by their ability to progress the R&D pipeline efficiently and consistently towards regulatory approvals and reimbursement for key therapies. Job Relevance.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Overlooking these realities is perilous, both for the patient’s well-being and for efficient delivery of care. Here are some steps such organizations might take: Share patient stories and related lessons at every meeting. This work cannot happen in a vacuum of forced efficiency. I don’t do that anymore.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2016

There are hundreds of planes, thousands of pilots, flight attendants, mechanics, and ground crews that must be properly deployed for the system to work efficiently. Optimizing that in a traditional way would be a massive exercise. Even a PhD would have to admit at the beauty of that efficiency. That’s remarkable.

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Airlines Software Efficiency System 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

” is an exercise in understanding, which is critical to making informed judgments and decisions—whether in the office or the boardroom. ” Most of us have had the experience of sitting through a contentious meeting, where stakeholders are polarized, progress is stalled, and consensus feels like a pipe dream.

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Education Exercises Meeting Report 51

Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2017

Consider the experience of one of the world’s largest footwear manufacturers, whose leaders engaged in an exercise that others can use to revamp the way they make decisions. For the footwear manufacturer, the exercise turned out to be less straightforward than it initially appeared. It consists of these four steps: 1.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2018

Doug embraced this idea and, in turn, explained how his company was using metrics and working group meetings to compel tangible advances in each inspection area. Later, in our annual comprehensive training exercise — a 30-day crucible in the Mojave Desert of California — we continued to benefit from our close collaboration.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2016

Many people are stunned to learn that I didn’t meet my chief technology officer in person until 2014 — three years after he started working for me. For a remote workforce, the culture deck takes on an even larger role because it has to somewhat compensate for a lack of in-person meetings and office visits.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2016

Along with many other executives, I attended talks by noted management authors, I went to (often lengthy) team-building exercises, and I participated in discussions on different leadership styles. It’s way more fascinating to discuss disruptive innovation than to talk about how to run a meeting that doesn’t drive attendees crazy.

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Harvard Business

MAY 2, 2016

For the sake of efficiency, we tend to make new decisions based upon old frames, memories, or associations. But it’s also possible to build mindfulness directly into planning exercises. Take mindful moments: One simple approach is to integrate straightforward mindfulness activities into meetings and retreats.

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Strategy Strategy Strategy& Exercises 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2017

In their popular HBR article “Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time,” Tony Schwartz and Catherine McCarthy identified regular exercise as key to resilience and results at work. But you may think you have to exercise for hours every week to get any benefit, which just isn’t feasible for most working parents.

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Exercises Education Recruiting Recruitment 28

freshminds

JANUARY 5, 2016

But New Year's resolutions give the opportunity for us all to reflect on ourselves and set new goals for the months ahead – and that doesn't just have to be post-Christmas guilty feelings of starting a new diet and exercise regime! Being late will never make a good impression, even if you are a senior partner.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Usually, that change is intended to improve performance – the effective and efficient achievement of goals. The highly collaborative and facilitative internal consultant or leader does not always exercise direct control and often is quite successful in guiding change.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Severn Trent Water, among other UK water companies, has agreed to “outcomes-delivery incentives” with the regulator Ofwat that results in rewards and penalties if it meets or fails to meet, respectively, performance commitments. PbR can turn into a costly, risky exercise that delivers unpredictable results.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

As a large team cares for patients, clear and efficient pathways for communication and workflows are necessary to ensure the patient experience is as seamless and organized as possible. PFK has utilized health IT to achieve its goals, customizing its EMR to meet the needs of its care coordinators.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

The book will also tell you how not to annoy your people during meetings, how to generate and manage creative ideas, and how office politics can be a kind of problem-solving. They’re under pressure to meet deadlines that sometimes overlap, juggle all these projects’ shared resources, set priorities, and ensure team members’ productivity.

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