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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.

Meeting 143
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How to improve your meetings

Halo Psych

Based on my experience, not just of the past few months, but of many years working across all sectors, leadership teams from different sectors have more in common than not. And one of the things they have the most in common is a frustration with meetings. People not contributing during the meeting. Poorly planned meetings.

Meeting 59
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5 Game-changing Behaviors to Make Your Next Meeting a Homerun

Makarios Consulting

When was the last time you considered it a joy to be in a two-day meeting? What made my client’s annual leadership team meeting a pleasure was five healthy behaviors that were on full display throughout the two days. And, I assure you, these behaviors made the meeting a homerun for each person around the table.

Meeting 79
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Decide When You Need to Meet, Workshop, or Write to Save Energy and Time

Johanna Rothman

You have information the team needs, and you want to meet. You see the need for these meetings: Standups. Except, the team thinks you want to meet too often. Instead of calling every gathering a “meeting,” use the meeting's purpose to guide your decisions. If so, that might be a meeting.

Meeting 74
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To Maintain Success, Sustain Leadership Disciplines

Makarios Consulting

In our work with thousands of leaders, three reasons bubble to the surface: leaders stop practicing good leadership disciplines because they get overconfident, distracted, or burned out. Everybody obviously knows and is living into the core values, so why take up valuable meeting time to review them? If so, why?”. It happens.

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To Maintain Success, Sustain Leadership Disciplines

Makarios Consulting

In our work with thousands of leaders, three reasons bubble to the surface: leaders stop practicing good leadership disciplines because they get overconfident, distracted, or burned out. Everybody obviously knows and is living into the core values, so why take up valuable meeting time to review them? If so, why?” It happens.

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Leadership Challenge: Make Encouragement Your Business

Makarios Consulting

Encourage the Heart “Encourage the Heart” is the last of The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® that James M. Posner define in their classic work The Leadership Challenge. For example, holding a casual pizza party to honor a team that worked backbreaking hours for three months to meet a critical deadline would be insulting.