Meetings

Niche Biz: Rented Event Space

Whether it is a business meeting, workshop, or a small event, people need a space they can use. @ The Space gives them the room they need… for a price. This is just the next step in a long entrepreneurial journey for Jodi Fedor. The two-floor venue is art gallery-sleek, but warm and beautifully fluid […]

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New Trend: Stand-Up Meetings

WSJ: Atomic Object, a Grand Rapids, Mich., software-development firm, holds company meetings first thing in the morning. Employees follow strict rules: Attendance is mandatory, nonwork chitchat is kept to a minimum and, above all, everyone has to stand up. Stand-up meetings are part of a fast-moving tech culture in which sitting has become synonymous with

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Mompreneurs Band Together

While there are many networking opportunties for women, it was becoming painfully obvious to Sherry Nouraini that not many of them were mom friendly, reports The Orange County Register. She used to be part of a women’s networking group, but when she missed a few meetings to take care of her daughter, members told her

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Taking Better Notes

photo credit: John Althouse Cohen When we attend meetings and seminars, many of us take along a notebook of some sort in order to jot down some notes to remember after the meeting or seminar. The problem with this is that many of us, when looking at our notes later on, can’t remember why we

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Daily Short Meetings?

photo credit: Torley In a previous post I wrote about how it may be time to do away with daily or weekly meetings as they can be time consuming where email updates would take less productivity time. In this post I’m going to the other extreme with daily short meeting’s. A recent article was posted

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Keeping Your Employees Engaged

photo credit: Iain Farrell Marshall Goldsmith recently did an article on ways to improve the level of engagement from your employees during difficult times. With the way business and the economy is doing right now, it is very critical to keep your employees as engaged as you can. The biggest piece of advice is communication. This can

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