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New Year’s Resolutions to End Boring Ineffective Meetings

Improve your meeting productivity with some effective meeting resolutions. Why risk another year of spending weekends and late work days doing the work you should have been doing all day?  Sick of endless meetings getting in the way? Then it’s time for some resolutions to take back your life and productivity. 1) I resolve to refrain [...]

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The Right Way to Run a Meeting – Readers Digest Article Oct 2011

“The right way to run a meeting” It certainly has been an interesting time in the past several months, from a New York Post interview to a mention from Readers Digest.   Here was a nice to the point article posted in Readers Digest with some nice tips and a brief mention and easy SRD from [...]

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Professional Speaker Magazine – “Humor Me” column

For Professional Speakers, The National Speakers Association is a great organization and one that I owe many thanks. When asked to provide an article for their “Humor Me” column in Speakers Magazine - I felt I had to share the following story related to a keynote speech I presented a few years back. Thought I [...]

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How To Banish Boring Meetings – SUCCESS Magazine, Nov 2011

Thanks for a great effective meeting article SUCCESS magazine!  We as small business owners need to know when to say NO and when to get into meetings that have a focus!  The results being: - Building our brands - Increasing revenue - Fostering positive relationships - Creating new ideas I appreciate the quotes and comments from Boring [...]

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How to write an agenda in actual practice

Thanks Ohio University for putting an actual agenda in place to discuss…putting an agenda in place. I must say I enjoy when I get emails of people and organizations putting to use some of their favorite suckification reduction devices from Boring Meetings Suck. So recently, I was emailed this agenda from my Alma Mater Ohio [...]

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Guarantee GREAT Audio at Trade Shows

Trade show audio bliss! Really, I’m not joking. It can happen. Those working the trade show industry may think is an oxymoron as trade audio is never bliss. Generally, it’s quite the opposite.  As a trade show magician and professional speaker I’ve seen industry trade shows of all types.  Professional speakers, presenters and entertainers, along [...]

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Need Help Starting Your Meeting on Time? Try “Pass The Pad”

Tired of people walking in late to your meetings and you want to Start the Meeting On Time? When asked to come speak or consult as a meetings efficiency expert, near the top of everyone’s list of meeting complaints is “Not Starting On Time!”  It’s a poor meeting etiquette habit that is prolific throughout the [...]

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Prevent business meeting tangents – or learn to Let ‘em go – you decide.

Productive and effective meetings are littered with ever present tangents that take the meeting to new levels of unproductive suckiness. Here’s one thought on how to prevent tangents from taking over your meetings.   Ever been in a meeting when Tangent Tony hijacks the conversation with an off-agenda issue, taking it in a direction you [...]

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Learn how to run an effective and productive meeting with focus and results!

What are most Effective Meetings missing? Focus and Results!   Want help!? Then read / view for more productive and effective meetings and how to create an effective meeting mission and outcome statement. This two minute of preparation time for your meeting will have exponential results! Let’s be real - if you are hoping to have an effective [...]

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The conference calls three most abused words ever…do you use them?

The conference call tips and conference call etiquette: Here are the three most abused words ever…Do you say them? Should you avoid them? If not, your conference call might suck. (sorry to be so blunt) Here is another episode of Boring Meetings Suck TV focused on those three very words that are most abused in [...]

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