Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

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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PM Alliance

DECEMBER 15, 2023

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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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 8, 2024

It can be productive, motivating you to innovate, or draining, leading to burnout. Manufacturing organizations like General Motors report spending more on healthcare than they do on raw materials for their products. For example, someone on your team who is feeling down enters a meeting. The Adecco Group.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 5, 2022

Product managers have a dynamic role within companies, sitting at the intersection between business leaders, customers, engineers, and designers. They help to organize the development process so that products meet customer needs and business goals. What is a Product? Managing the Product Lifecycle.

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

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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PM Alliance

JUNE 9, 2023

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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The Fearless Marketer

JANUARY 13, 2020

The purpose of B2B marketing is to get meetings with prospective clients. Let’s say you’re a manager who’s looking for somebody to help their team work more productively and creatively. Well, the business manager, asks others in their company, “Hey, do you know somebody good who does productivity and creativity consulting for teams?”.

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Markovitz Consulting

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Recent research from the Boston Consulting Group confirms that employees can do better work when they’re liberated from much of the bureaucratic cruft that passes for daily management. According to BCG’s analysis , productivity at companies that have shifted to remote work has increased between 15% and 40%. Four-hour meetings?

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 12, 2022

For example, it can be hard to create the same dynamic during an online meeting since the majority of the meaning in our communication is conveyed via body language. In groups that are unfamiliar with one another, it is not uncommon to have prolonged periods of silence where each participant fears being the first to speak.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2018

There are many problems with the way most meetings are run. In an effort to not make anyone feel left out, they unknowingly decrease the quality of the meeting. When well-intended managers are too inclusive with their meeting invites: There is not enough time for everyone to participate in the conversation. vgajic/Getty Images.

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The Fearless Marketer

JANUARY 20, 2020

I’ve been writing a lot about the importance of setting up meetings with prospective clients and those who can lead you to prospective clients. How to Get 100 Meetings. More Meetings = More Clients. But what do you actually say in such a meeting that will move things forward and lead to more valuable connections?

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Nash Consulting

MAY 6, 2020

How to Have Effective and Enjoyable Workplace Meetings This meeting started 10 minutes late. Can we just get this meeting started already? I literally have no clue what we’re meeting about. Boy, do I have a lot of work to get done that I’m not doing as I sit here in my fifth meeting of the week. It’s Tuesday.)

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Most entrepreneurs and product managers (PMs) know that they need to find out what people want. The collected information is then taken into product development meetings, focusing all future engineering efforts on addressing the customer pain points in a way that can be monetized. Instead of asking “do you like this logo?”

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Meetings are notoriously one of organizational life’s most insufferable realities. In a meticulous inventory, we calculated the hours spent in meetings by directors and above across the enterprise (a population of about 500). They collectively spent more than 57,000 hours per year in recurring meetings.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 1, 2021

By changing how we approach meetings and how we run meetings, we can connect and communicate more effectively – and reduce stress and fatigue. One week, the study volunteers participated in four half-hour meetings that were scheduled back-to-back. It’s not an abstraction — quite the opposite.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

There’s a lot of advice out there about how to make meetings more efficient and productive. And while it’s true that leading focused, deliberate conversations is critical to organizational performance, meetings aren’t just about delivering results. What is a quality experience in a meeting?

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 3, 2019

Associate Product Manager (APM) positions are well known in Silicon Valley as rotational, mentorship-focused programs designed to accelerate the careers of young aspiring product managers. These alumni have gone on to become VCs, founders, and product leaders, in addition to starting APM programs at companies like Salesforce.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 7, 2023

This can include finding new markets to expand into, developing new products or services, or identifying new partnerships or collaborations. This involves understanding the target market, their needs and wants, and what they are looking for in a product or service. Another key aspect of business development is building relationships.

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Consulting Matters

MAY 12, 2022

Dianna and I had a unique business, "meet cute." What sealed the deal for me was when she got up in front of the group to practice her signature talk. I could tell from meeting Dianna how brilliant she is as an engineer. We also brainstormed different ways to position some of the program ideas she has been percolating on.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Others have tuned the meeting out, retreating to their laptops or phones. At the end of the meeting, the only real outcome is the decision to schedule a follow-up meeting with a smaller group — a group that can actually make some decisions and execute on them. Others won’t stop talking.

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Gina Abudi

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Diversity within the organization enables for a variety of benefits, including creativity and innovation in: Solving problems of the business New products and services for customers Additionally, diversity enables for better meeting the needs of customers – who are often diverse themselves.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 26, 2024

This article explores the nature of inflation, delving into its impact on different socioeconomic groups, the balance between inflation and unemployment, and the historical theories that have shaped monetary and fiscal policy decisions.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2023

While productivity is important, the balance between task completion and taking the time to connect with your team is essential in avoiding burnout and making work more enjoyable. A consequence of our often never-ending to-do lists at work is the loss of camaraderie among coworkers.

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Harvard Business

JULY 4, 2016

When it comes to designing and leading meetings that produce results , when you meet matters just as much as how you meet. Because of these distinct roles, the two groups have very different needs in terms of their daily rhythm and calendars. Given these differences, the ideal schedules for each group often conflict.

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Chad Barr

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Meeting interesting and thought-provoking individuals. Creating new products and services and innovations. appeared first on The Chad Barr Group. Contributions. Grateful for and grateful to. Time to relax and invigorate. Relationships, friendships, and family. Embracing new developmental experiences.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

If your meetings are unproductive, this might be the reason.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

“Sometimes, when I sit in meetings, especially ones in which people don’t seem engaged, I calculate the cost in staff time. So many meetings are lost opportunities.” They should, according to these statistics on meetings: Organizations hold more than 3 billion meetings each year. Daniel Day/Getty Images.

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Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 14, 2022

Members of the leadership team expressed the same, but were also concerned about declining productivity and engagement. Finally, we worked with the organization to go back to the basics of meetings and emails. Does this need to be a meeting? We also helped to develop a decision tree focused on accepting and declining meetings.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Most people see meetings as a burden, a waste of time, or a general annoyance. But meetings aren’t going away. The good news is that leaders have the opportunity to significantly improve how meetings are run at your company, which could boost your influence and your career. You’ll create productive relationships.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2016

There it is in your inbox: a meeting invite to a meeting you really don’t want to attend. Whatever the reason, sometimes you need to decline a meeting invite. Whatever the reason, sometimes you need to decline a meeting invite. How Top Salespeople Land Hard-to-Get Meetings. You and Your Team Series.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 16, 2023

Test ideas quickly, and simply Although designed for small newly established companies, large companies can also innovate by employing the lean start-up method , an entrepreneurial process of quickly testing a new product idea. A common way to test a new product idea is to create a pilot version, which is produced at small-scale.

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2016

If you think that your boss is ineffective at leading meetings, you are not alone. Few managers or supervisors have mastered the art of meetings and even fewer organizations have made it a priority. You have a right to ask for whatever you need to be effective in the meeting. How Top Salespeople Land Hard-to-Get Meetings.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

One simple and often overlooked way for larger companies to experiment is to randomize the introduction of new products across a set of markets. But with the Express Pool service, which costs even less than UberPool, passengers are generally asked to walk short distances to meet their rides and to reach their destinations.

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Successful Independent Consulting

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Places all work products and recommendations in the context of the client’s environment. A skilled facilitator — Easily manages groups with disparate views and backgrounds and achieves stated meeting/project goals. Ensures ownership for follow-up actions and meeting outcomes. Manages expectations — Doesn’t over-commit.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Specifics of Project Management for Manufacturing Companies The manufacturing environment deals with creating physical products, which in turn embraces a variety of processes that should be properly managed. Meeting the increasing demand under conditions of ongoing resource shortage is a challenge for manufacturing project management.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

How to make sure that a company utilizes its available resources wisely so that they are productive but aren’t overloaded? Resource utilization is one of the most essential KPIs that project-based organizations should track – it gives them an idea of how efficiently they use the available resources and how productive their employees are.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 3, 2023

Role ambiguity increases non-productive conflict and employee burnout even when a team has good working relationships. RACI Creation Step 3: Align groups and individuals with RACI designations Review each task, and identify the individual or group associated with each RACI designation. References: Amiruddin, A.

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