#Meetings
How to run a successful meeting
Meetings are a powerful tool that are widely misunderstood. Given the frustration most people feel when their time is wasted, gaining a reputation for running efficient and successful meetings is good for you and your career. Running a successful meeting is more than sending out a notice that your team is to meet at a […]
Don’t be afraid to shake things up
Don’t keep doing the same thing and expect a different result.
Why businesses are moving from face to face meetings
How can meetings be more productive?
You don’t need to know dark art to run efficient, productive business meetings
We’ve all been there. A meeting is scheduled, most people arrive on time, and then nothing happens for ten minutes. Well, to be precise, quite a bit happens, or doesn’t happen, as the case may be. Usually those first ten minutes are lost because the team are trying to find a free meeting space to […]
Why meetings are killing innovation
The average manager’s workday is divided into one hour blocks. This is not due to humans naturally working best in one hour increments but because meetings, those seemingly necessary events that seem to dominate the days of office workers everywhere, tend to be scheduled in one hour blocks. Diaries covered in meetings have become so […]
Make 2017 the year for greater collaboration
Like any leader overseeing a large geographic region, I have often found myself meeting with partners in Sydney, attending a customer event in Auckland and joining an analyst briefing in Singapore – all in the same week. Unlike in the past, I have been able to meet these commitments without even having to board a […]
Are you making these 4 colossal seminar presentation mistakes?
Much of the fear and anxiety over public speaking boils down to the unknown or ambiguous elements of the presentation itself. Even a little bit of preparation can significantly reduce your anxiety.
What’s your story? Why you need to hone your elevator pitch
‘What do you do?’ is a standard icebreaker, but it’s also a qualifier to see if there is potential to do business with the person standing before us.
Pointless workplace meetings a productivity drain
A new study has found the number of workplace meetings is rapidly on the rise, taking up increasing amounts of time, reducing productivity and largely seen by employees to provide valueless outcomes.
Six tips for leading an effective meeting
Most people dislike meetings for two reasons: they can go for too long and no decisions ever get made. Here’s how to make sure the next meeting you hold fall under this category.
Top tips on how to deliver a successful AGM
Having executed hundreds of AGMs over the years, Staging Connection’s event managers and technical professionals know what it takes to deliver a seamless AGM.
Can introverts be great entrepreneurs?
Conventional wisdom suggests you must be bold and outgoing to be successful. Here’s why the stereotype doesn’t hold up.
Five tips for running engaging and inspiring meetings
Whether holding a meeting for employees or clients, they’re often met with a certain amount of negativity and lack of enthusiasm. Use these ideas to help you think outside the box when running your next meeting, and see an immediate boost in engagement levels.
There’s no such thing as an informal meeting
Lady Danielle Di-Masi blogs about treating every meeting as important, even “informal” ones over coffee. “Always remember you are your client’s experience of the company, you are the service and the product. How you act in your meetings, any meeting no matter how informal you may think it is, influences the way they perceive you and your company as a firm and its value.”
How to design powerful and productive sales meetings
Designing a powerful sales meeting is not an easy task, but it is one of the most important aspects of building and maintaining a high-velocity sales organisation. The objective of all sales meetings should be to increase sales—period. That’s why we call them sales meetings. Entertaining the participants and having them leave full of enthusiasm is a good thing, but it should never overshadow the need to produce sales.
Meetings hurting business
New research shows meetings have become unproductive sinkholes that interfere with organisational progress and sap the confidence of middle management. Read Dr Ken Hudson’s tips to improving the success of your meetings and increase morale.
The art of great meetings: how to overcome Q&A jitters
Do you remember the last time you delivered a great meeting presentation – nods of agreement, laughter at the right points, no one yawned – only to fumble during the question and answer session?
Become a charismatic public speaker
How many times have you been to a meeting or presentation where you were bored out of your mind? Too many to count? To avoid becoming a yawn-worthy public speaker yourself, make use of the internet. One online option is Scene Change’s Presentation Channel. A monthly video program, which covers topics like being comfortable on […]