How to Have Great Meetings
Can you imagine a workplace without meetings? Most people can’t. There are over 11 million meetings a day in the U.S. alone.
Since we started our company over three years ago, we’ve come pretty close to our goal of no meetings. Sure, we talk. We get things done. And every once in a while we even have a “meeting.” We like them to zip along, though. Start fast, end faster, get to work. This week I stumbled across three very interesting articles about how to have effective meetings, each of which start with an admonition about avoiding meetings.
Five Weeeeird Tips for Great Meetings. Alexander, the Chief Happiness Officer, makes me smile every day. He offers some fun tips for effective meetings. One idea: Lose the table and meet standing up.
7 Ways to Avoid Pointless Meetings. Ben at Institgator Blog subtitled this one “Meeting don’t have to suck.”
The 7 Sins of Deadly Meetings. This Fast Company article says, “Meeting are too long. They should do twice as much in half the time.”
Although professionals in American business are said to waste over 30 hours in meetings monthly, there is a better way. Way back when I started working I used to attend group meetings that were quick…and on time. The big boss used to lock the conference room door at the exact time the meeting was to begin. And inevitably someone who was late would tug on the door. They only did that once.
Why I Blog: The Meme
Mike Sansone of ConverStations tagged me and four other business bloggers with the “Why I Blog” meme. I know this doesn’t have a heckuva lot to do with HR today, so you can put this one down to “Getting to know your local gunfighter….I mean, writer.”
Know More HR for 2007-02-08
Career development programs need more…development. A recent study of career development programs shows that those programs just don’t make the grade with a majority of employees.
It’s time to get a life. Kelly Services launched the Free Agent Connection for Gen Y on a site called itstimetogetalife.com. GenYoungsters can find job info by Podcast, text message, and video clips. Oh, they have a website and phone numbers, too.
Wal-Mart and Unions say “yes” to healthcare. “Quality, affordable health care for every American by 2012″ is the rallying cry of a group of employers and unions in an announcement on Tuesday.
Friday KnowHR Links - The HR News Edition
EVP of Human Resources at Home Depot resigns. Dennis Donavan resigned from Home Depot effective February 14, 2007. He gets some lovely parting gifts.
HRThoughtLeader.com launches. The Human Resources Professionals Association of Ontario introduced a very useful HR news and information portal.
Talk to an HR advisor. This is a very interesting personalized HR advisor. For $29.99 an average session, workers can get advice about pay negotiations, performance appraisals, leadership and supervisory skills development to career transition counseling.
Know More HR for 2007-02-01
Precrimination. From Word of the Day comes this definition — Precimination: n. A recrimination made in advance of some expected event or outcome. I like this one. It’s the logical cousin to one of my other favorite words: Blamestorming.
Communication is in the eye of the beholder. A guerrilla marketing campaign for Aqua Teen Hunger Force shut down the city of Boston. The whole city. The Charles River. Bunker Hill. I-95. The blinking marketing gimmicks had been deployed without incident in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Austin, Philadelphia, and San Francisco.
Most firms don’t track employees’ days off. A Hewitt Associates study shows that companies are often clueless about the cost of employee absence. Even more shocking is that a large number of companies don’t even know if their employees are in or out. Maybe they need to borrow Lucy’s “The Doctor is In” sign.
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