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Casual Articles - Developing Efficient Meetings
Business process management (BPM) is an emerging technology for improving the efficiency of business concerns. It includes the elements of workflow, document management, business rules, and enterprise application integration. The latest news in business process management is the diverse software packages available for this process. Many call centers are currently using business process management software to reduce abandon call rates and improve overall customer service.According to analysts, business process management has become today's hotly contested software category. Almost all companies that design these software packages claim that these are h
Nowadays, with the rapid progress of high technology, almost nothing is hard to do. Everything is easy, even more, things are done instantly. People get less care about the quality, it seems like it's not important anymore. The word good is replaced with instant. That's what people need.With that kind of situation, art or design field is not an exception. We can find hundreds or even thousands of companies or individuals who offer logo design service which can be done in only days (which normally take months) on the internet. Not only fast, it is much cheaper as well!!I was once visited the very well known online company website who offers free
The first two responses were…
“Meetings are looooooooooong,” and “Meetings are BOW-ring (this workshop was actually held in my hometown of Fort Worth, Texas – thus the Texas twang.)”
Those two responses almost always come up when I ask the question. Others that also come up a lot are: Wastes of time, non-productive, confrontational, inefficient, repetitive, and a number of other negative descriptions. Every once in a while, I get a response like positive, informative, or necessary, but usually the other participants gang-up against the person very quickly.
Most people believe that meetings are necessary evils, and in many cases, they are. But one of the most important things we can remember about meetings is to NOT have one unless the meeting is absolutely necessary. When your employees and coworkers are in staff meetings, they are not producing. Nothing is ever produced until after the meeting is over. Some one of my first pieces of advice to people who want to make meetings more effective is to have fewer of them.
About five years ago, I made this statement in a class, and a young lady in the front row raised her hand and said, “That sounds really good, but my whole job description involves going to meetings.” I was intrigued, so I asked her to tell me more. She was a personal assistant to a manager of a Fortune 500 company, and she was hired by her boss to attend the meetings tha
Remember the big break of AT&T years the prior? All the commotion about a monopoly and what do we see today? A huge merger putting more pieces back together again and what is this Humpty Dumpty syndrome? No one seems to get it; all the Kings horses and all the Kings Men could not do it before, remember? Oh, but it is okay for the FTC to go around pushing our Corporate Nest Eggs off the wall?They attacked AT&T and Microsoft but really if you think about it the government regulators are complete morons? The AT&T break-up did not lower prices for consumers, it did not make service better and it did not help America. Now that the Telecom Industry is all s
“Meetings are looooooooooong,” and “Meetings are BOW-ring (this workshop was actually held in my hometown of Fort Worth, Texas – thus the Texas twang.)”
Those two responses almost always come up when I ask the question. Others that also come up a lot are: Wastes of time, non-productive, confrontational, inefficient, repetitive, and a number of other negative descriptions. Every once in a while, I get a response like positive, informative, or necessary, but usually the other participants gang-up against the person very quickly.
Most people believe that meetings are necessary evils, and in many cases, they are. But one of the most important things we can remember about meetings is to NOT have one unless the meeting is absolutely necessary. When your employees and coworkers are in staff meetings, they are not producing. Nothing is ever produced until after the meeting is over. Some one of my first pieces of advice to people who want to make meetings more effective is to have fewer of them.
About five years ago, I made this statement in a class, and a young lady in the front row raised her hand and said, “That sounds really good, but my whole job description involves going to meetings.” I was intrigued, so I asked her to tell me more. She was a personal assistant to a manager of a Fortune 500 company, and she was hired by her boss to attend the meetings th
Plan for things to go wrong.We’ve heard it before, and it’s still true: if something can go wrong, it will. Figure out ahead of time where your problem solving effort is vulnerable and develop appropriate contingency plans. Start on this as soon as you begin the problem-solving effort, making it a normal part of defining a problem.Vulnerabilities are all the things that could prevent your problem-solving project from succeeding. Typical vulnerabilities include changing priorities, inadequate resources (people, money, time), staff turnover, key players unable or unwilling to participate, other projects not getting completed on time
Most people believe that meetings are necessary evils, and in many cases, they are. But one of the most important things we can remember about meetings is to NOT have one unless the meeting is absolutely necessary. When your employees and coworkers are in staff meetings, they are not producing. Nothing is ever produced until after the meeting is over. Some one of my first pieces of advice to people who want to make meetings more effective is to have fewer of them.
About five years ago, I made this statement in a class, and a young lady in the front row raised her hand and said, “That sounds really good, but my whole job description involves going to meetings.” I was intrigued, so I asked her to tell me more. She was a personal assistant to a manager of a Fortune 500 company, and she was hired by her boss to attend the meetings th
Research would indicate that consumers don’t know what they’re thinking. According to an article written by Jack Shimell (2002) for Quirk’s Marketing Research Review, Consumers make their decisions and react to advertising based more on unconscious emotional processes than on conscious rational processes.There appears to be an interplay between the conscious and the unconscious with the unconscious being the driving force, when it comes to reactions to advertising and purchase decision making.There is also a distinct personality / temperament factor involved in consumer thinking and behavior. People with moderate extrovert traits tend to reac
About five years ago, I made this statement in a class, and a young lady in the front row raised her hand and said, “That sounds really good, but my whole job description involves going to meetings.” I was intrigued, so I asked her to tell me more. She was a personal assistant to a manager of a Fortune 500 company, and she was hired by her boss to attend the meetings th
An Adventurous way of making money in the bank is through the purchasing of money making funds - stocks, bonds, and mutual funds (Mutual Funds are technically known as the open end investment company.)Each Investment Company must state its objective whether it be to preserve principle so its purchasing power keeps up or beats inflation. The investment company might have as its objective to speculate in new companies with great upside potential for growth, while others invest in blue chip common stocks and high grade government bonds. Whatever their objective is it must have its mission statement expressed and the company can not later change its missi
The tips below are strategies that I have collected over the years from class members who swear by their effectiveness. I hope they work for you as well.
1) Have an Agenda: Outline ahead of time what points will be covered in the meeting. Write it out, and distribute it to participants ahead of time. This will help avoid the “chasing of rabbits,” and help participants be more prepared for the meeting.
2) Follow the Agenda: This sounds very elementary, but you’d be surprised by the number of people who take the time to create an agenda, and then totally disregard the agenda during the meeting.
3) Limit the Agenda to Three Points or Less: Ask yourself, “What are the three most important things we need to cover in the meeting?” Limit the agenda to these three points. The rest of the things you wanted to cover, by definition, weren’t really that
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