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Casual Articles - Meetings! Where Minutes are Kept and Hours are Wasted
The very term conjures up an image of hundreds and thousands of pounds of investment, millionaire lifestyle, no work and a life of sun and sand. At least that's the image being marketed by the huge number of property seminars currently in the business. The seminars can be under different names : real estate seminars or courses, wealth creation, positive cash flow, passive income. All are preying on the same desire of an average human being to become wealthy. Given what these seminars charge for their courses, at least someone is fulfilling his desire to become wealthy, at the expense of the attendee.Yes, property investme
This week I present 26 little ideas to help you respond to complaints and difficult customers with much more ease….the ABC’s of Customer Recovery.A ct as if every lost customer’s sales come out of your paycheck.Believe the best of customers. Don’t make the mistake of assuming most customers are out to simply get something for nothing. The truth is, less than 1% of customers contact companies with ulterior motives in mind.C ommunicate with diplomacy and tact when you final answer is “no” and when explaining company policy.D on’t tell a customer she is wrong. Telling a
Yes! Let’s dream a little. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a pass that says, “Get Out of a Meeting Free”? Here are some ideas for making your meetings more productive:
Consider the timing. If you’re someone with the ability to call a meeting during a certain time, seriously consider the best time to hold it. Corporate America has trained most people to be “morning people.” Our natural energy cycles cause us to be “up” or have “prime” time first thing in the morning. Unfortunately, many people insist on holding meetings at that time. Some kinds of meetings are good during prime time, like those involving brainstorming, problem solving, or strategic thinking. Routine staff meetings, project updates, or information-only meetings should be held during lulls in productivity. Similarly, a brainstorming session on Friday
As an entrepreneur as you read every word of this article, you will learn how to profit from the net and work from homeDo you see people making big cash online work at home? Keep hearing all these people making it big, while you can not even find a way to get started? Is it taking you too long to come up with ways to make cash online and work at home?You will find out in this article: * Why use the Internet to work at home and make cash? * What options are open that allow us entrepreneurs to create cash online work at home? * The next step to earn cash online and work at homeO Why utilize the
Yes! Let’s dream a little. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a pass that says, “Get Out of a Meeting Free”? Here are some ideas for making your meetings more productive:
Consider the timing. If you’re someone with the ability to call a meeting during a certain time, seriously consider the best time to hold it. Corporate America has trained most people to be “morning people.” Our natural energy cycles cause us to be “up” or have “prime” time first thing in the morning. Unfortunately, many people insist on holding meetings at that time. Some kinds of meetings are good during prime time, like those involving brainstorming, problem solving, or strategic thinking. Routine staff meetings, project updates, or information-only meetings should be held during lulls in productivity. Similarly, a brainstorming session on Frida
I was having lunch with my good friend Pete, and we were talking about different life situations, management and people we know. Afterwards I started thinking about how we all walk around carrying our own burdens. Some are more than others.I likened it to balancing a bucket of water on your head while you are walking down a path. Some paths are rocky, some are smooth.In some countries this is the only way goods are moved between far flung villages. We all have seen pictures of people walking with large loads precariously balanced. Step by step they walk along their path until they reach their destination.Man
Consider the timing. If you’re someone with the ability to call a meeting during a certain time, seriously consider the best time to hold it. Corporate America has trained most people to be “morning people.” Our natural energy cycles cause us to be “up” or have “prime” time first thing in the morning. Unfortunately, many people insist on holding meetings at that time. Some kinds of meetings are good during prime time, like those involving brainstorming, problem solving, or strategic thinking. Routine staff meetings, project updates, or information-only meetings should be held during lulls in productivity. Similarly, a brainstorming session on Frida
Recruiters, commonly called headhunters, are business professionals who get paid by client companies to find people for positions. They have their monetary interests aligned with their client companies, not with the candidates. Although you might think that recruiters are out to help candidates, for the most part they are simply polishing candidates up for sale. Recruiters need candidates and search high and low for people with desirable and marketable skills. Candidates can use recruiters to enhance their career moves. They can work together. Here are a few suggestions on how you can most effectively partner with a recruiter an
Does the Better Business Bureau have too much power? What do you really think of the BBB? Have you questioned their sales tactics or questioned their validity? If so you are not alone. Home Depot ended up kissing up to the extortion tactics of the Better Business Bureau. Why bother, they are nuts those people.http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2002/08/12/daily4.html?f=et50As many of you know the BBB, which is the little darling of the FTC – Federal Trade Commission often uses extortion techniques to get it’s business members to foot the bill of it’s business and even goes so far as to tell such businesses
Establish a code of conduct for your department or organization. Without a set of “rules” or “protocols” for holding meetings, people do their own thing, creating unpredictability between different meetings. I just facilitated a training session with a corporate division with 75 people. Together, we created the following Code of Conduct, which will govern their future meetings:
1. Meetings are only allowed 9-4 Monday through Thursday and 9-1 on Friday.
2. An agenda, along with any pre-work, is required 72 hours in advance of the meeting, clearly outlining the objective of the meeting. If a purpose can’t be defined, cancel the meeting. Outline the time requirement for each item on the agenda and the responsible person.
3. If meeting is not within these guidelines, each attendee has ab
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