Posts Tagged ‘Meetings’

Leadership Moment — 4 Essential Ingredients for Effective Meetings

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

Every orga­ni­za­tion has meet­ings — but are your meet­ings effec­tive? Watch as Daniel shares four essen­tial ingre­di­ents to help you get more out of your meetings.

Leadership Moment: Meetings and Stewardship

Monday, November 28th, 2011

Meet­ings cost money. In this Lead­er­ship Moment, Daniel encour­ages lead­ers to be good stew­ards and under­stand the finan­cial cost of our meetings.

Close the Loop

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

How much time does your orga­ni­za­tion waste in meet­ings try­ing to fig­ure out what you already decided in a pre­vi­ous meeting?

When you don’t “close the loop” in meet­ings, you and your team­mates will wind up invest­ing pre­cious time try­ing to recre­ate what was already dis­cussed but left open-ended. What was the final deci­sion? Who was the project owner? What were the next steps?

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Why Off-Site?

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

One of the best things I get to do as an Exec­u­tive Coach at Build­ing Cham­pi­ons is to facil­i­tate Exec­u­tive Retreats. I love see­ing how each unique mem­ber of the exec­u­tive team trans­forms just hours after the retreat launches. I wish I could say that my coach­ing was solely respon­si­ble for this beau­ti­ful trans­for­ma­tion, but it is not.

There is some­thing mag­i­cal that hap­pens when a small group of tal­ented and busy lead­ers pull away from their desks, leave their offices, trade in their suits for jeans and check out of their homes and into an envi­ron­ment that is dif­fer­ent than the norm for a day or two.

The expe­ri­ence of an off-site retreat can be of incred­i­ble value.

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Thank You, Dr. de Bono

Friday, July 8th, 2011

Most of us bat­tle with con­fu­sion when we are think­ing about a crit­i­cal sit­u­a­tion alone. Con­fu­sion is even more prob­lem­atic and costly when we are think­ing together as a group.

Our stan­dard method of orga­ni­za­tional think­ing is often adver­sar­ial. Every­one wants to have their own thoughts heard, often at the expense of others.

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