The best tips and insights on running a productive and organized meeting culture.
As we’ve said before, LessMeeting was born out of a shared frustration with just how bad the meetings we’ve been in can be. We tried to find a solution but didn’t see anything that helped our problem. At the time products mostly addressed what we call “The 35,000 Foot Problem”, or how to use techn
By Jeffrey Steinke
Read MoreAlright - time to wrap things up. In the third and final post of this series, we'll look at Review Meetings and Sales Meetings. Visit Part 1 to learn about Status and Decision Making meetings, and Part 2 to brush up on Planning and Operational Meetings. Type 5 - Review/Evaluation Meetings: Exa
By Jeffrey Steinke
Read MoreIn the first post of this series - https://lessmeeting.com/2011/08/how-to-hold-right-meeting.html - we looked at how to make sure you're not having the wrong meeting. We began by breaking down two of the most common meeting types: Status Meetings and Problem Solving Meetings. Today we'll look at t
By Jeffrey Steinke
Read MoreMeeting problems occur across all sorts of meeting types. However, some problems are more prevalent in certain types of meetings. In addition, we have found that not having a clear understanding of the type of meeting you are holding in the first place will magnify the problems you are likely to
By Brett Cooper
Read MoreSo you’ve signed up for LessMeeting and don’t know what to do next? You see a bunch of information about an Outlook plugin, but you don’t have Outlook! What are you supposed to do?Fortunately there are two alternatives to the Outlook plugin for generating meetings: CC or forward each of your calen
By Jeffrey Steinke
Read MoreAt LessMeeting, we want you to be able to see what happened for any meeting at a glance: - Decisions: √ - Actions: √ - Notes: √ - Overall Quality: √So when we started hearing from customers that they wanted to take this further to the Key Performance Indicators they were reviewing in meetings, we to
By Blake Byrnes
Read MoreWe've all been there before. You're trying to get through a meeting, and Bob (let's call him Bob), just will NOT stop talking. It might be because Bob wants to sound smart, or he really thinks you aren't taking in his point about the TPS reports being redundant, but he just keeps rambling. So, t
By Blake Byrnes
Read MorePeople want better meeting minutes! New users end up at LessMeeting from a variety of sources looking to solve a range of problems. The two most common topics that bring the majority of traffic to our website are: Preparing agendas before the meeting Writing minutes during the meeting Somet
By Jeffrey Steinke
Read MoreThis week I met with my project team to try to diffuse an important issue. I scheduled a 30 minute meeting with the following agenda: Well, a few minutes in one of my colleagues asked, "Why don't we just do this...", an option that was not even thought of originally, but one that ultimately made th
By Jeffrey Steinke
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