Posts Tagged ‘meetings’
Beyond basic brainstorming: A process for better ideas
Kevin Eikenberry is a expert on leadership development, author, speaker, trainer, consultant and coach. You can learn more about him and read more of his writing on his blog. You’ve been to those meetings. In a sterile conference room with a whiteboard or flip chart, the facilitator (maybe even you) encourages the group to come [...]
This week’s most clicked
How to be a wizard of a servant leader; finding ways to be creative with only minutes a day; and circumlocutors, quidnuncs and other characters from around the conference table. Read about all this and more in this week’s top five most-clicked links in SmartBrief on Leadership: Servant leadership lessons from Harry Potter 10 people [...]
For better meetings, set some ground rules
This post is by Thomas Kayser, who worked for Xerox in the area of organizational effectiveness for 30 years. He is the author of two books: “Building Team Power: How to Unleash the Collaborative Genius of Teams for Increased Engagement, Productivity, and Results” and “Mining Group Gold: How to Cash in on the Collaborative Brain [...]
To run a good meeting, respect your 3s
This guest post is by Art Markman, a professor of psychology and marketing at the University of Texas at Austin, executive editor of the journal Cognitive Science and a member of the editorial board of Cognitive Psychology. Follow him on Twitter at @abmarkman. I have spent much of the past 10 years splitting my time [...]
Taking cues from the comedy club
Today’s guest post is from Charlie Allenson, owner of Improving with Improv, which provides adaptive thinking workshops that use the techniques of improvisational comedy. His client list includes GE, Accenture, the law firm of Lowenstein Sandler, and Coach Leather. We’ve all been there: The meeting that defies the time/space continuum. Where everybody, except the person [...]
This week’s most clicked
The 5 most-clicked links in SmartBrief on Workforce this past week: How Twitter can cost you a job Manage like Dilbert? In defense of doodling 12 reasons old management won’t fly with “Generation F” 5 tips for networking events Image credit, iStock
Go ahead, have a seat
Bob Sutton’s post yesterday about the potentially sexist implications of where we sit around the meeting table was thought-provoking. The snap judgments we make when assessing who’s in charge in any particular situation are still too often clouded by irrelevant gender and racial prejudices. (Don’t consider yourself evolved if you’ve just swapped those biases for [...]
Making time for meetings
Last week’s SmartBrief on Workforce poll question was What percentage of your work day is spent attending meetings? 1 to 25% – 56% 26 to 50% – 23% 51 to 75% – 13% 0 – 7% 76 to 100% – 1% Meetings are a part of being a manager. Some people love ‘em; others endure [...]
