Company Picnic Ideas and Planning Tips - If
you're planning a company picnic, you'll want to plan! Learn from an expert
about what details you need to consider to make sure your company picnic is
a success.
How to
Protect Your Boss From Bad Meetings - Do you schedule your boss for
meetings? Are you an administrative professional who handles the boss'
calendar? If so, here's how to schedule your boss for effective business
meetings. You'll learn when not to schedule him for meetings and how to
prepare him for meetings.
Event Planning: Seven Best Practices Successful Planners
Use - Whether you're planning a
conference, seminar or product marketing effort, your event can and will
fall apart if you don't cover all the angles. And even if your office
title at work isn't "event planner", your unofficial title will be mud
if your event is less than satisfactory for the boss and the attendees.
Here are seven event planning guidelines so that doesn't happen.
30 Tips for Keeping Meeting Expenses to a Minimum
- If you want to make your boss happy, plan a great event or meeting on
a tiny budget. Here are some expert tips to organize an exceptional
meeting or quality event while paying less money for meeting and event
expenses.
What
to Ask When You're Invited to a Meeting - When you're invited to a
meeting you need to do more than just show up. You need to do some prep work
beforehand. These five tips will help you attend a more effective meeting or
plan a more effective meeting if you happen to be the one calling the
meeting shots.
Why Would
Anyone Do That in My Meeting? - When you host a meeting at work,
don't expect everyone to behave the way you think they should in your
meeting. Sometimes meeting attendees may express behavior in your meeting
that is rude and irritating. Or they may say something irrelevant in your
meeting. Here is why and what to do about it.
Quick Tip -
Effective Meetings Have a Complete Agenda - A proper meeting agenda
states everything that the meeting participants need to know in order to
have an effective meeting. Here is the right way to make a meeting agenda.
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Also consider:
Tip Sheet #10: An Overview of Web Conferences, Audio Conferences
and Video Conferences (Including When to use Them)
Tip Sheet #11: How to Plan & Implement Web Conferences (Plus Participation
Tips Too)
Tip Sheet #12: How to Plan & Implement Audio Conferences (Plus
Participation Tips Too)
Tip Sheet #13: How to Plan & Implement Video Conferences (Plus
Participation Tips Too)
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Web conferencing, audio
conferencing and video conferencing. If your boss or company is not
utilizing any of these meeting formats he or she will soon. Count on it!
This technology is not going away! Get an overview of all three tech meeting
formats and learn the basics about them so you'll have a good foundation of
what everyone is talking about.
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Effective Meetings by Phone - Part 1, How to Plan a Teleconference -
You can bring staff together from regional offices and even global clients,
vendors or others to discuss projects by holding a teleconference. But your
teleconference will be a bust without proper planning. Use these tips to
plan effective meetings by phone.
Effective Meetings by Phone - Part 2, How to Hold a Teleconference -
An effective meeting by telephone starts with planning. Teleconferences
differ from in-person meetings and require a few special considerations to
be most effective. Here are 18 tips for conducting effective meetings by
telephone.
How to
Hold Effective Staff Meetings - Are your staff meetings just
gatherings of people who work in the same department. No wonder nobody wants
to attend them. Try these five activities to make your staff meetings
effective and valuable.
Managing
Monsters in Meetings - Part 1, General Strategies for Unproductive Behavior
- Unproductive behavior in meetings happens. But if you're managing the
meeting you need to know how to prevent it or stop it once started. Here's
how to do that.
Managing Monsters in Meetings - Part 2, Multiple Conversations -
You're in charge of conducting and facilitating a meeting. But you have a
problem. Others are holding mini meetings--side conversations--while you're
trying to conduct the only meeting that should be happening in the room.
Here's how to handle side conversations during your meeting.
Managing Monsters in Meetings - Part 3, Drifting From the Topic -
You're conducting a meeting. You want meeting attendees to participate. But
sometimes they get too enthusiastic and interrupt or add an inappropriate
idea that distracts from the meeting focus. Here's what you do to refocus
your meeting on its original agenda items.
Managing Monsters in Meetings - Part 4, Quiet Participants - If you
want to hold a meeting in which every one in attendance speaks at some
point, you might have to make that happen. Some people are quiet in
meetings. Here's how to get their active participation.
Managing Monsters in Meetings - Part 5, Dominant Participants - When
you're managing a meeting you'll notice some people like to talk and
participate more than others. This participation in the meeting is good. But
it can become bad if this individual dominates the meeting input and
conversation. Here's how to make sure you have a well-rounded meeting in
regard to audience participation.
Managing
Monsters in Meetings - Part 6, Deadlocked Discussions - Sometimes
agenda issues don't get resolved in meetings because participants disagree
on the solution or some hold different positions on an issue. Here's how to
resolve deadlocked discussions in meetings.
Managing Monsters in Meetings - Part 7, Personal Attacks -
Disruptions in meetings can come in the form of personal attacks from one or
more audience attendees. Here's how to handle these upset attendees and keep
your meeting a safe and focused environment.
Whom Do You
Invite to a Meeting? - A successful meeting contains the right
participants. Here is who to invite to your next meeting.
10
Tips for Better Participation in Meetings - Whether you're
conducting a meeting or attending a meeting, make sure you add value to the
meeting. Here's how to do that.
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Karen Porter, The Administrative Professional Job Performance and Career Success Coach™