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...
We meet with international teams all the time — our own company spans three timezones and two countries, and we work with clients around the world. When you host international conference calls with people living in different...
When you run online meetings with people who are located in different parts of the world, it’s crucial that you help your team make a human connection. “Icebreakers” are just the ticket: short team-building exercises conducted at...
There are four distinct roles within a collaborative meeting: Leader, Facilitator, Note-Taker, and Participant. So what happens if you have to be Leader and Facilitator at the same time? Here are tips to make the best of...
When you hold a collaborative meeting, one key to getting results is deciding on who does what. If you define the meeting roles of the people invited, everyone knows what to expect. If you don’t define those...
For the past seven years, I’ve been juggling two careers: technical project manager and freelance writer. The project management part is familiar to most people in tech today; it’s a now-common mix of general web skills, organizational ability, and the...
