by Kate Mercer | May 3, 2017 | Organisation Culture
Some of the most important work you ever do is done in meetings, so set some clear groundrules to be able to work more effectively together. “Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than...
by Kate Mercer | Apr 4, 2017 | Leadership
Empowerment includes preparing people to take control. In this guest blog post from Dan Rockwell, he looks at questions and topics for employees to use in one-to-one meetings where they can control the agenda. To empower people, you must give them some control....
by Kate Mercer | Jan 3, 2017 | Organisation Culture
Make your meetings more expensive – and they might actually cost you and your business less! Here are some top tips for holding meetings that really do their job. Imagine you hired a meetings fairy. The fairy’s job would be to ensure that meetings were short,...
by Kate Mercer | Oct 17, 2016 | Organisation Culture
It’s important to keep meetings short and snappy as people begin to switch off after 30 minutes. This guest blog post from Olive Keogh in The Irish Times explains why. “A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.” This pithy...
by Kate Mercer | Feb 9, 2016 | Organisation Culture, Team Development
Does it sometimes feel as if you spend all day in meetings, yet any real work has to be done outside them? Here are four ways to turn this around and make your meetings more productive. The real problem is that your meetings aren’t really snappy or productive...
