Comments on: Five weeeeeeeeird tips for great meetings

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100 All-Time Best Ways to Hack Your Workday - Career Overview — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:39:13 +0000

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Talking Story with Say Leadership Coaching — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:15:05 +0000

Having a meeting? Add silence to the agenda…

While on a cruise through Alexander Kjerulf’s Chief Happiness Officer blog archives, I came across a post he did called 5 weeeeeeird tips for great meetings. Of his 5 tips, the one I liked best was the 5th one: Use…

By: Why long meetings are a waste of time

Why long meetings are a waste of time — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:28:28 +0000

[...] 5 weeeeeeird tips for great meetings. [...]

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Five simple ways to STFU in meetings — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:56:18 +0000

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By: Robbert

Robbert — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:30:21 +0000

Coming back to this after a while (due to a post about meetings today).
I found that losing the table does not result into people sitting in a circle, but more in people sitting more randomly throughout the room. This means that the meeting will primarily take place with the people in the middle, the the ‘outlying regions’ playing the onlooker.

My solution is to use a room with table, but to make sure the room isn’t bigger then needed. If possible, it’s better to book a room that is slightly too small, so that the people are evenly distributed along the table naturally. The close quarters also prevent slouching, as people feel more ‘closely involved’.

By: Aude

Aude — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:34:19 +0000

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By: arievianza

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By: WindowsPistha

WindowsPistha — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:08:28 +0000

Great Post ! It works.

By: joe falco

joe falco — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:12:00 +0000

Baloney: here’s how to get the most out of meetings the quickest way:

Turn thermostat down all the way in the conference room one hour before.
Remove all of the chairs and the table if possible.

By: 2Kool4Skool

2Kool4Skool — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:04:35 +0000

This blog stream is a great idea. I am currently on a team tasked with the loafty goal of creating a better, healthy, happy work environment in a very large organization. Just the name of our team suggests that we should be looking for solutions to boring soul sucking things like meetings, yet our meetings are becoming boring. We have the added bonus of holding video conference meetings, which further alienates the smaller groups, and makes it hard to interact with warm and fuzzy break related activities. One fun activity we did was to hold a break out session where we split brought in stacks of interesting and fun magazines, flip charts, markers, scissors and glue. We asked the team to break off into groups of 5, and they had 10 minutes to create a collage of images or words that captured what they felt the goal of the project was, then each team had to select a spokesperson to present their collage and explain their vision of the project. It sounds juvenile, but you should have seen how it energized the previously bored group, and was a real team building exercise. Team members still refer to that exercise as our most productive half hour thus far, and the team is 7 months old.

Anyone else have a really good team building exercise they know of?