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Managing ArrivalArrival is all about getting the right people at the right time with the right attitudes and expectations.The ideal is that people arrive fully prepared … Read more |
1. Facilities – rooms, technology and support
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Meeting Tools Training Workshops 2019Each month in 2019 we are looking at a different tool to make your collaborations more inspirational and effective. Each tool is designed to increase … Read more |
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Persistent Project WallsUnlike physical meeting rooms, virtual meeting rooms can be limitless in their dimensions and their allocation. Information can be spread over their virtual walls with … Read more |
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Asynchronous meetingsAsynchronous means ‘not at the same time’. Asynchronous meetings are a form of collaboration where the topics, the purpose and the inputs and outputs resemble a … Read more |
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Bringing the best version of yourself …You have probably heard the phrase ‘bring your “A game”‘. It reflects the idea that we can turn up in different states of preparedness and … Read more |
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Making the room your ownJames really should have moved the flipchart. It wasn’t just the projector half-blinding him whenever he looked up from writing on it, or the fact … Read more |
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Walk and Talk MeetingsWalk and Talk is a different type of meeting. It takes place outside, between two people (or a series of two people by mixing pairs … Read more |
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Developing a vision for web-based meetingsWhat is your vision for web-based meetings? While you may appreciate the importance of visions and clear pictures of what you are working toward, it … Read more |
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Internet options for meetingsVirtual meetings are potentially the best thing to happen to meetings, ever. Frankly, our meetings have been in a rut for over 2000 years. They … Read more |
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Are ‘board-style’ meetings an antiquated concept?Have you ever wondered about the terms ‘chairman’ and ‘board’? Do they not seem slightly arcane to you? Have you questioned where they come from? |
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Power positioningSeats around a meeting room table are not all of equal influence. The smooth transfer of the conversation from one speaker to the next is … Read more |
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Meetings selection chart“It is a strange quality of the human psyche how, if the most familiar tool in your kitbag is a hammer, all the problems come … Read more |
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Mixed meetings and mediumsFor centuries, meetings have been our key mechanism for collaboration, but the nature of collaboration is changing as never before, and with it, the concept … Read more |
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Meeting room set-upsMost meeting rooms in most organisations are set up with a single table surface in the middle and chairs arranged around it as per the … Read more |