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One, if not the singular most common time complaint by staff of any organization, large or small, is that of incessant, mind-numbing meetings.
Jessica Stillman of BNET has some great recommendation by Seth Godin on managing this beast.

Understand that all problems are not the same. So why are your meetings? Does every issue deserve [...]

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I’m back!

I’ve just returned from the Academy of Management’s Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. It was – by far — the best conference that I have ever attended. I participated in lots of great sessions, met incredible people, and gather some new resouces that I will be sharing with you soon.

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The awesome folks at bNet.com, the go-to-place for management advice, recently introduced the power of whiteboarding as a simple strategy tool.
If you are like me, you have had your share and more of PowerPoint presentations. I was at a recent six-day seminar and probably saw at least 15; and I was involved in creating five!
Whiteboarding [...]

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We have all been there. You build a great training session based on the expressed needs of your audience. You then circulate the agenda with a sign-up form. Lots of folks sign up. Then —- there are a lot of “no shows.” What happens between the time these folks sign up for the training and [...]

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