As your business grows, you have two routes you can take when it comes to staffing: you can hire employees or you can work with freelancers. Many businesses are realizing the benefits of hiring remote employees and...
As more and more teams are collaborating remotely, having effective meetings between various stakeholders is key to successful projects. Developers and designers are two core stakeholders in this process. Collaboration between them and the issues surrounding how...
Every organization exists to create value. Companies work to create value for customers and stakeholders. Education exists to create value for students and the community. Non-profits create value for members and society at large. Government should create...
Introducing Nancy Settle-Murphy It’s my pleasure to welcome renowned virtual collaboration expert Nancy Settle-Murphy to the blog. Recently I gave a talk about taking government meetings online, and was asked how to succeed when the meeting was...
I’m thrilled to introduce Dr. Patricia Thompson to the community of meeting designers and coaches featured on our blog. I first learned about Dr. Thompson and her work through an article she wrote for Harvard Business Review...
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...
Leaders get work done through the conversations they hold. Often those conversations are in meetings—particularly when multiple people need to be in the discussion. In spite of all the criticism of time-wasted in meetings, leaders need meetings...
New Meeting Agenda Template! Here at Lucid, we’re fans of Lisette Sutherland’s work with remote teams on CollaborationSuperpowers.com, Happy Melly, and her blog at lisettesutherland.com. When we saw her post on creating a working agreement for remote...
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...
