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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 78
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8 Tips for Running a Productive Virtual Meeting

Tom Spencer

As a former consultant, attending and facilitating meetings was probably where I spent most of my time. With the lack of physical human interaction, scheduling meetings was the mutually agreed way to even have a simple conversation. Like many of you, I get frustrated by unproductive meetings. Optimize your “tech” in advance.

Meeting 192
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How to improve your meetings

Halo Psych

And one of the things they have the most in common is a frustration with meetings. This includes those coming as guests to present at a board meeting, as well as some board members, themselves. People not contributing during the meeting. Poor chairing, meaning the same people dominate each meeting and take up the most airtime.

Meeting 59
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Recognize the Problems That Prevent Effective Meetings (Collocated, Remote, Hybrid)

Johanna Rothman

” It's too hard to find time to meet. We can't find a place to meet. If we're back in the office, we have no meeting rooms. Or, we have some remote people, so we need several “places” to meet and the technology to support all those places. Work product: Collaborate to create a work product.

Meeting 115
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10 Ways that AI is Turbocharging Productivity

Tom Spencer

AI-powered tools offer individuals a range of ways to boost their individual productivity including assistance with task prioritization, time management, professional development, and a range of other activities. Research Assistance AI tools can assist in collecting, organizing, and analyzing information, and generating useful insights.

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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?

Meeting 88
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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.