Goals are critically important for the success of a meeting. You must know what you want so you can ask for it. And the participants need to know what you want so they can help you get it. Without goals, a meeting becomes a journey without a destination. Unfortunately, many meetings are called without goals. […]
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Most people treat meetings as a free resource that can be used to deal with any issue. As a result, huge amounts of time and money are wasted on trivia. A meeting is a business activity (not a social event) and should be designed to earn a profit. Here’s how. Once you’ve prepared the goals […]
Most agendas for a meeting look like this. * Budget * Payroll * Staff * Sales * Zvoufzxtn Some people tell me, “That’s a perfectly good agenda. I know what all of those things mean, except, uh, ‘Zvoufzxtn’.” The point is, Zvoufzxtn means as much to you as the other terms mean to the other […]
Here’s an easy quiz to check the health of your meetings. 1) Who leads your meetings? — a) No one, b) Whoever has the loudest voice, c) A facilitator 2) What happens to the ideas in your meetings? — a) If we had to think of ideas, it would be work, b) We make fun […]
Any business out there can benefit from quality management. Whether you are producing thumb tacks or if you are producing IT equipment, there is little doubt that they need to be of the highest levels of quality. Yet, as your business grows, you will find it farther and father difficult to manage quality management. Because […]
I have seen many changes in my forty years as a professional management consultant, particularly in the business change and management improvement practices. My specialty is applying information technology for the benefit of the business. In the 1960s and 1970s, we developed information systems from the ground up to satisfy user requirements. It was clear […]