In November, I was pleased to be invited to present our advice for running successful virtual meetings to the Government of Alberta as part of their Greening Government Speaker Series. The series goal is to stimulate interest,...
What is a meeting cadence and why does it matter? In our post about why teams meet, I outlined two basic rules: Meet to maintain momentum. Meet to change course. Kickoffs, retrospectives, emergency meetings, planning sessions, workshops,...
Behind every effort to improve an organization’s meetings, you’ll find a larger initiative focused on increasing productivity and improving culture. Organizations that run effective meetings as a matter of course do so because it improves the productivity...
Many people are unhappy with how their meetings work. Some of these people try to improve their meetings. Of those who try to improve their meetings, a few achieve dramatic results. Sweeping, business-changing, revolutionary improvement. Others make small...
More than half of a middle manager’s day is spent in meetings and $37 billion dollars is the very high figure for revenue lost annually due to the time being spent in unproductive meetings. In fact, in...
Introducing Dan Prock The Lucid Meetings team is delighted to welcome our newest template designer, Dan Prock. We met Dan through Ingrid Bens, and quickly realized he had specialized expertise that we were missing. Dan Prock helps...
Meetings are an important component of virtually any business. In the past, it was not uncommon for meeting participants to board a plane and fly to another coast or international locations. This was necessary to ensure that...
Introducing Ingrid Bens The Lucid Meetings team is delighted to welcome our newest template designer, Ingrid Bens. Ingrid is an award-winning author and facilitator whom we’ve known for many years. When we heard she had a new...
Creating a strategic plan for your business is a critical task for the leadership of every company. If you don’t decide where you’re headed, you will lead aimlessly. People will follow your direction, but they won’t have...
We recently co-hosted a Q&A webinar with Paul Axtell, and didn’t know exactly what to expect. He gave such a great presentation – useful tidbits about meetings, great conversations, and life in general – that we decided...
Remarkable leaders understand that how they design and lead meetings determines how well their group functions. Why Leaders Need to Master Meetings Meetings serve a critical function in the workplace. The meeting’s job is to lead a group from wherever...
(Tip: Be sure not to miss the downloadable business meeting notes template at the end of the story) Return Leverage, one of Lucid’s Enterprise clients, found our downloadable meeting notes to be less helpful than they’d hoped. Toby Lucich from Return Leverage asked...
