While traipsing through the halls of a local high tech startup, I chanced across this laminated set of rules in the cafeteria. Why the cafeteria? Because that’s a high traffic area and it’s important that everyone get the...
More importantly, how does your boss know? And what about your clients/members/stakeholders – how do they know? Research shows that meeting consumes more time than any other business practice: people meet all the time. And what are they...
A few years ago as a hobby, I became a SCUBA Instructor. It was a great weekend gig that kept me outside, in the water, and interacting with divers eager to learn about our oceans. To ensure...
There’s no one here except us people Fundamentally, we meet to satisfy our needs for rich information gathering, human connection and to feel a part of a group. Kevin Hoffman says that meetings “…are the only place we...
Beauty and Value: both all up in your eyes A quick preface: value, like beauty, is subjective and personal. Measuring meeting value, then, becomes an exercise of finding a methodology for turning these individual perceptions of value...
Example:10 people with an average burdened rate of $100/hr attend a 1-hour meeting. The organization pays $1000 for those people to attend the meeting. Why Most Companies Don’t Measure This Cost This calculation quickly and easily shows...
Part I: Software Costs As you may have seen, we recently announced new pricing for Lucid Meetings. You may have wondered how we arrived at the prices we did. Then again, maybe you didn’t. Either way, prepare to...
