Why You Should Doodle at Work
Whether you’re bored at a meeting or just daydreaming at your desk, doodling with a pen and paper can be just the creative release your brain needs during a hectic workday. Not only that, studies …
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Do We Even Need Meetings Anymore?
If you’re like most people, you don’t enjoy attending meetings — not only don’t you enjoy them, you probably kind of hate them. In fact, 17 percent of workers say they would literally rather watch paint dry…
How to Bow Out of Meetings That Are a Total Time Suck
Originally written by Wanda Sealy for Fairygodboss
Time is the most valuable asset you have, and you have a limited amount of it! Attending meetings that don’t contribute to achieving your goals isn’t the best use of your …
How to Stop a Steamrolling Coworker From Dominating Meetings
Do you have a coworker who dominates practically every discussion in a meeting? He or she inevitably unleashes a monologue with no end in sight, causing other “participants” in meetings to slip into silence.
It doesn’t matter whether this …
Is That Meeting Really Necessary?
Is there anything more painful than sitting through a meeting that’s headed nowhere — and that you don’t need to be in? I’m talking about the kind with no appointed leader, no agenda, and no set end time. …
10 Tips For Setting Up a Space For a Big Meeting
Meetings might not be workers’ favorite thing, but for now they remain a nonnegotiable part of life in many companies. When you’re the one in charge of preparing a space for a meeting, especially a big one, you have …
Science Says This Is the Best Time to Schedule Meetings
As a general rule, people really don’t like meetings. In fact, 17 percent of employees say they’d literally rather watch paint dry than attend one. Still, there are some rare folks who actually enjoy them, and most of us …
4 Reasons to Goof Off During Meetings
How much do some people hate meetings? Seventeen percent say they'd literally rather watch paint dry than attend one. So, it's not surprising that we're tempted, on occasion, to goof off a little during meetings. Well, here's some good news – that might not be all bad. There are actually some benefits to goofing off a little. Let's take a closer look.
What We Can Learn About Meetings From the Rare People Who Actually Enjoy Them
Complaining about meetings is the unofficial sport of many workplaces. In fact, according to a recent Harris poll, sponsored by the online collaboration company Clarizen, 17 percent of employees said they would literally rather watch paint dry than attend a meeting, and eight percent would rather undergo a root canal. However, every now and again you come across a person, or even a group of people, who actually really enjoy meetings. Maybe we can learn something important about ourselves, or at least about how we collaborate, from thinking about their approach. Here are a few ideas to consider.
5 Ways to Build a Better Meeting
We've all had our time wasted attending or even running a meeting at work. So often, we walk out of a conference room wondering, "What the heck just happened in there? How did everything spiral out of control so fast and furiously?" The next time you're planning a meeting, think about these five tips for making your meetings work better, stronger, and most of all, more efficiently than ever before.
Make Your One-on-One Meetings More Productive
The most important meeting you have on your schedule isn't your annual performance review or even the quarterly board meeting: it's the one-on-one you have with your reports, hopefully once every week or two. Here's what you need to know about making these one-on-one meetings a good use of everyone's time.
Too Many Meetings? Here’s What to Do
Frequently find yourself moving from one conference room to another as you navigate a schedule jam-packed with meetings? If your company seems to allocate a lot of time for talking about what needs to be done and not enough time for doing the actual work, it's probably because that's what's actually going on. These days, it's not just the leaders and the top executives who spend their day in meeting rooms; almost all employees now seem to be spending their time attending and making meeting notes.