The best tips and insights on running a productive and organized meeting culture.
Do you work with someone who is double-booked for multiple meetings every day? Can you hear them right now... complaining about how they never get anything done because they are in meetings all day? What keeps them from being able to manage their schedule? If you were in their shoes, what would yo
By Brett Cooper
Read MoreWhen you were in high school, if you took any sort of advanced biology courses, one of the projects you had was to dissect a frog. I'm sure you remember it well... Your teacher gave you a live frog, you had to kill it by sticking a needle in the base of its neck. Then there was a set of instructi
By Brett Cooper
Read MoreHave you ever found yourself sitting through a conference call with 20+ people when you were actually doing working instead of paying attention to the meeting? POP QUIZ - You get called on… but you were not paying attention. What do you do: (A) Tell the moderator that you missed the question, ask
By Brett Cooper
Read MoreAl Pittampalli over at Work Awesome has started an interesting meeting edict: Cancel all further informational meetings! In an era of social media abundance, where so many rich methods of communication are everywhere (e-mail, recorded audio, recorded video, etc.) why are we still herding people to
By Jeffrey Steinke
Read MoreAs we highlighted earlier in the week, we've just released a bunch of updates to LessMeeting. Today we'd like to quickly detail one of those.Daily Digests for Your Attendees Previously you've been able to control a number of your own Daily Digest settings: how many Todos to include, how far forward
By Jeffrey Steinke
Read MoreWe are very excited to announce that we are releasing a new version of LessMeeting today. This includes updates to both the Outlook plugin and the web app.Requested Features Our users have always had great ideas and suggestions about ways to improve LessMeeting. Here are some of the ones we have inc
By Jeffrey Steinke
Read MoreLook familiar? You've probably dealt with one or more of these bad meeting suspects before. Maybe we called them by different names or saw them in different forms, but either way we've all seen them. Putting Names To Faces They've interrupted your presentations, hijacked your discussions and pla
By Jeffrey Steinke
Read MoreDid you catch the new season of The Office recently? Season 8 has started and we find out that (drum roll, please...) Andy Bernard is the new regional manager for Dunder Mifflin's Scranton branch. And already we can learn a thing or two from Andy. Or rather, what not to do. Andy's Plan I'll set
By Jeffrey Steinke
Read MoreWhether you're a traveling consultant or you work for a company that has multiple office locations, there's a good chance that you use conference calls for meetings. In the past you would get a conference dial-in number, send that to all of the participants,and then dial in the admin code yourself.
By Jeffrey Steinke
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