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Employ a "Silence Denotes Agreement" Rule to Get Better Feedback
A meeting with your colleagues is the best time to bring up new ideas or object to ones already on the floor. If that’s not happening, try suggesting a new rule: if you’re silent, that means you...
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Make Your Meetings More Effective and Efficient by Standing Up
One of our most popular productivity tips is to stand during meetings , and for good reason—sitting makes everyone comfortable and complacent, while standing forces people to stay on task. This video...
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Add Some Breathing Room to Your Meeting Schedule With the Margin Method
Back to back meetings can overwhelm your days and leave you with hardly any time to get anything else done. You can give yourself some much needed wiggle room with the meeting margin method.Read more...
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Three Easy Ways to Make Meetings More Accessible for Quiet Types
Meetings tend to be dominated by talkative people, and that makes it hard for the meeting wallflowers to feel heard. These three simple tips for before, during, and after the meeting will give everyone...
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Remind Yourself of Meetings with a Flashing Light and a Raspberry Pi
If you find yourself ignoring notifications and alarms about meetings, you might need something a little more in-your-face. Make offers just that, with a flashing alarm that’s hard to ignore.Read more...
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If You Have to Reschedule a Meeting, You Should Offer the New Times
You should do your best to avoid canceling meetings, but life gets in the way sometimes. If you do you have to reschedule a meeting with someone, take ownership of the mishap and be the one to offer...
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Define Your Meeting "Type" Beforehand to Make Sure They're Productive
Whether you host or just have to attend regular meetings, you can make them more efficient by clarifying the type of meeting it is. You’ll get everyone on the same page, your meeting will be more...
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Keep Your Meetings Productive with a Low “Action to Decision” Ratio
Meetings where decisions are made but no one wants to be accountable for them, are the worst meetings. Keep that “action to decision” ratio low by ending every meeting with an “accountability summary”...
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Five Ways to Politely Deal With People Who Keep Interrupting You
“I’ve been giving it some thought,” I said in a team meeting at one of my previous jobs, “And I really think the partner listings on our website would function better if we—” “Let me jump in,”...
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GenderEQ Tracks Which Gender Speaks the Most During Meetings
iPhone: Ever been curious about exactly how much the men and women at your office speak during a meeting? GenderEQ can track that and break it down into percentages.Read more...
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Follow Jeff Bezos'"Two Pizza Rule" for More Productive Meetings
A party without cake is just a meeting, but a meeting without free pizza is no fun at all. This is why I was happy to hear that the Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, has a “two pizza rule” for holding...
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Use Slack to Schedule Meetings With This Service
The only thing worse than going to meetings is scheduling them. You have to check with everyone’s availability, find a time and location that works, send out an invitation, and then bug people until...
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Why You Should Brainstorm for Questions, Not Answers
The goal of brainstorming is to find possible solutions to a problem, but the process often becomes a platform for the outspoken, who offer the same perspective time and time again. Instead: ask...
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Stop Wasting Time in Meetings by Asking Yourself These Questions Ahead of Time
Unless you are very lucky (or just very young), you’ve most likely given up precious hours of your life to meetings that either ran way too long, or didn’t need to happen in the first place. Read more...
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Create Searchable Audio Transcriptions in Real Time With Otter
iOS/Android: There’s one part of being a reporter that I absolutely despise: transcribing. Whenever I interview folks, I always audio record the interview so I can go back and listen to it later. It’s...
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Tuesdays at 2:30 PM Is the Best Time to Schedule a Meeting
We’ve established that Tuesdays are the most productive day of the week, so it makes sense that a meeting on Tuesday would be best for a productive, useful meeting. And right after lunch is the best...
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Don't Schedule Lunch Meetings Unless You Plan to Provide Lunch
Few things irritate office workers more than booking a meeting right over lunch. Sure, it may be the only time most people’s calendars are open, but that’s probably because everyone’s trying to get out...
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Use a 'Police Officer' to Keep Business Meetings on Topic
When you’re having a work meeting, the more people that are invited the easier it is for the whole thing to get derailed, which is why every meeting needs a meeting “Police” to keep things on...
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Keep Your Meetings On Track With This Meeting Timer
One of the easiest ways to derail a meeting is to start talking about something off topic or to spend too much time talking about something that you don’t leave an adequate amount of time to discuss...
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How to Look Smart in a Business Meeting Full of Strangers
When you’re meeting a group of new people, especially in the context of a business meeting, you want to put your best foot forward. One easy way to look like you’re the smartest person in the room is...
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How to Look Better in Your Next Zoom Meeting
Physical distancing means a lot of us have started to have virtual meetings or even virtual Happy Hours over Zoom.Read more...
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Host a Quick Meeting With Skype's 'Meet Now', No Login Needed
My new Dungeons & Dragons gaming group has been meeting virtually the past few weeks, but we still can’t decide on which service offers the best quality and user interface—and is easiest for all of...
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Is Your Video Chat App Secure?
I confess, I’m so fatigued by all things quarantine, I’ve let my guard down. I find myself not caring very much about the services I use to stay connected to my friends—and that’s not ideal, because...
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This is the Smartest Zoom Hack We've Seen Yet
Leave it to a bored adolescent to come up with one of the most ingenious ways to appear “present” in a Zoom chat I’ve ever seen—especially if the chat is on the larger side and someone isn’t paying...
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The Best Alternatives to Zoom for Remote Meetings
Zoom is getting a lot more use now that people need to hold meetings remotely and carry other events virtually that used to involve face-to-face interaction. However, it’s not the only online video...
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