The best tips and insights on running a productive and organized meeting culture.
We’re excited to announce the newest feature – the ability to attend and participate in meetings from 35,000 feet. Actually this isn’t a new feature, but it might be a first for LessMeeting.I was recently traveling to a client-site meeting and it was one of those days where there were fires to put o
By Jeffrey Steinke
Read MoreJason Fried and the team at 37signals are working on an effort to make January 19th “Boycott a Meeting Day”. At first I loved the concept, but the more I started the think about it, the more I began to be troubled by the flaws in the concept of “boycotting meetings”. Here are a few stories I will us
By Brett Cooper
Read MoreSeth Godin writes in “Making meeting more expensive” about a meeting Fairie who would ensure that meetings are shorter and more effective by performing a few key tasks. Our favorites that he mentions are: Ensuring that every meeting has a clearly defined purpose, and accomplishes that purpose, then
By Brett Cooper
Read MoreThe team here at LessMeeting would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. To help you get the year kicked off right, we have released a number of updated LessMeeting features. The following are key new features to help you run better meetings: Assigning Action Items to Multiple People There have be
By Brett Cooper
Read More"Recently we debated the most useful handheld device for driving meeting effectiveness and efficiency using LessMeeting. It was a split decision with half the team voting iPad and the other half voting iPhone.There are advantages and disadvantages to both and our team spent a great deal of time layi
By Jeffrey Steinke
Read MoreKeep giving us more great ideas, and we'll keep building them! We just pushed an exciting upgrade to the Outlook plugin, with 4 notable new features: Agenda Templates Tag Suggestions Upcoming Meeting Notifications Improved Plugin Layout New Layout for the LessMeeting Outlook Plugin
By Blake Byrnes
Read MoreClickity, click, click, click…. Scroll wheel…. Click click…. This is the sound from the guy next to you frantically tapping away on his blackberry in the middle of the meeting.Is he checking his Facebook page, is he playing solitaire, or is he responding to an email that is critical to helping your
By Brett Cooper
Read MoreI’ll admit it… I’m a serial multi-tasker, particularly in meetings, and especially in those that are conducted over conference call. Since I’m in a confessional mood, I’ll go one step further: I usually do a half-hearted job of each of the tasks on which I’m multiply focused. There are countless tim
By Jeffrey Steinke
Read MoreAs a consultant, I work with many different clients. Each client and even teams within a client have distinct personalities. The anthropologist in me loves observing and then adopting the culture of the teams with whom I work. In one recent project, several weeks in, I was in a meeting where the dis
By Jeffrey Steinke
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