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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.

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Beware of the meeting trap: how leaders should manage their time

Brimstone Consulting

And beware of the meeting trap. Porter and Nitin Nohria tracked and analyzed how CEOs in large, complex companies manage their time. Porter and Nohria then offered recommendations for how CEOs could manage their time more effectively across their many responsibilities. The key here is not falling into the trap of meetings.

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Case Interviews via Video Conference

CaseInterview.com

Lately, I’ve been getting a lot of questions about how to handle case interviews via video conference. At the time of writing this article, many firms are not meeting candidates face-to-face due to COVID-19. While video conference case interviews weren’t unheard of before, they are much more common right now. Technical Setup.

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Rethink the Tools That Create Effective Meetings (Collocated, Remote, Hybrid)

Johanna Rothman

I wrote about general meeting problems in Recognize the Problems That Prevent Effective Meetings (Collocated, Remote, Hybrid). But “hybrid” teams have much worse meeting problems. During the pandemic, most of us understood how to create nebula team meetings that worked. Dispersed teams are nebula teams.

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Effective & Enjoyable Meetings: Who Should Attend?

Nash Consulting

Meetings should have as few people as possible, but all the right people. Scharf You’re wondering who should be in each meeting, are you? But here’s the thing - big meetings make people sad. Most of us know how frustrating it is to sit through a meeting where you belong about as much as a vegan belongs in Texas.

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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. A scenario like this leaves people feeling their time is being wasted in meetings, which makes them disengaged.

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Case Interviews via Video Conference

CaseInterview.com

Lately, I’ve been getting a lot of questions about how to handle case interviews via video conference. At the time of writing this article, many firms are not meeting candidates face-to-face due to COVID-19. While video conference case interviews weren’t unheard of before, they are much more common right now. Technical Setup.