2015 - The Lucid Meetings Blog

5 Easy Tips to Make Your Online Sales Meetings Stand Out

Who isn’t familiar with the deadly sales meeting where someone drones on, flipping through the 100-slide PowerPoint deck? This situation is even worse when you’re working online, presenting from a distance. Your audience’s eyelids are drooping. They’re checking...

meeting design

How to Assemble Great Virtual Teams for Remote Work

We are living in a digital world, and it’s likely that every manager has thought seriously about hiring remote workers. Remote work is no longer a thing of the future – it is here, now. In fact, it’s been...

remote work

The Better Meetings Playlist: Songs for your Meetings

As I was researching how different teams run daily stand-ups, I ran across Jason Yip’s description of how he uses music to gather the team. This is not the first time I’ve that come across techniques that...

fun with meetings

Meetings as Competitive Sport

Many years ago, I met with Michael Harrington, a public speaking coach and trainer. He described his training approach as that of “taking a competitive sports view” to public speaking. His view was that you could train...

leadership & facilitation

Debunking 4 Common Myths about Stand-Up Meetings

Recently we suggested The Stand-Up as a way to run status meetings with remote teams. Of the four formats we listed, the stand-up is probably the most popular, but it’s also one of the most misunderstood meetings...

meeting design

Question of the Day: How do you track meeting results?

Recently we received this question from a Lucid Meetings customer. What have you found to be the best way to track meeting deliverables and analyze efficiency / value added during meetings? This is a great question; one...

tips & techniques

4 ways to run status meetings with your remote team that actually work

Hint: Download the PDF facilitator guides for all 4 meetings at the end of this post. Most teams run status meetings because they always have. Because someone told them to. Because that’s what they did in their...

meeting design/remote work

The Better Meetings Book List

The bookshelves in the Lucid Meetings main office are jam-packed with business books, technical references, Esther Gokhale’s fabulous 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back (posture, people!), and TONS and tons of books about meetings. Many of which...

book review/leadership & facilitation

How to Make the Case to Your Boss to Work Remotely

Why Work Remotely? There are some real benefits to working remotely, and if you value them (like we do), then maybe the time has come to approach your boss about the idea. One big reason employees choose...

remote work

6 Meeting Metrics to Collect in Every Meeting You Run

Here’s an excerpt from our new ebook, Meetings Are Serious Business: How to Minimize Costs, Maximize Value, and Master Your Meetings. It’s from the third chapter, when we get into specifics about how to improve the ROI...