N2Growth Blog

JULY 17, 2014

“If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be “ meetings ” ~Dave Barry. Everywhere I go I hear complaints about Business Review Meetings. Lots of talk but no decisions, just another request for more data.”.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2020

De-energizers leave folks feeling bored, depleted and disconnected. Here, then, are nine ways to help you be the leader that energizes others in your online meetings. If you’re leading in that way, others are more likely to respond in kind. What do you want people to know, think, do, feel or believe as a result of the meeting?

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Was I boring her? Why did she even want to meet with me if she wasn’t going to give me her attention? Our relationship was not such that I would say more to her about it. I came away from the meeting wondering just what was going on. During our discussion she kept looking around. She didn’t maintain eye contact.

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Career Advancement

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

If you find your current responsibilities boring, bigger challenges are definitely in order. Many of us are spending a third or more of our time on tasks of lower importance. By automating repetitive tasks, companies can free up their employees to spend more time on higher-level, creative responsibilities.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

OCTOBER 20, 2023

More work than ever before is done completely through teams. With the amount of time spent in meetings, they need to be worthwhile! Allow me to explore why and then provide practical steps to transform meetings in your workplace. How many of these dynamics have you experienced in team meetings, just in the past week?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Or should you partner with a more niche, local boutique? I would caution that size is not always an indicator of success, and more importantly, not a risk mitigator,” said Kelli Vukelic, CEO of N2Growth, a Philadelphia-based management consulting and executive search firm. “I When meeting with a search firm, Ms. Typically, Ms.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 23, 2020

Some rules that can help your team in brainstorming: There should be a facilitator who can conduct the meeting. Let them ask questions from you about the topic, the clearer they will be about the topic, the more creative ideas you can get. Build on others ideas, make someone else’s idea more creative. Ask for the worst ideas.

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Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

When the steps to make the change are more exhausting than the value the change provides. If people are controlled more than empowered you will attract doers, but you won’t attract visionary leaders. When you spend more time discussing than doing. Granted, we need to meet about some things.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I remember meeting a friend who was in the middle of a breakdown. In fact, I’d venture to say that many of us spend more time at work than we do at home. It sounds obvious, but think about how much time you spend on this thing — the last thing we want is to feel bored and uninspired by what we do all day long.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 21, 2013

days, which may seem like a lot, especially for a topic that has the potential to be deadly dry and boring. You’ll make smarter decisions that are more likely to be accepted by the big dogs. You’ll feel more like an owner of your company. You’ll be able to hold your own in management and board meetings.

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Chart Your Course

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The goal is to build up your product and meet with potential clients, all while fostering and facilitating good relationships within your company and with customers. Sales jobs require appointment setting, strategic planning, client meetings and researching the competition that your product is up against. No Faith in Product.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

If you manage 2 or more employees, it’s a good idea to have regular team meetings. Team meetings encourage collaboration, a sense of belonging and identity, help coordinate interdependent work, and from the employee’s perspective, are a good opportunity to get fed and break up the routine of the day. Timing is important here.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Do you use that data to create an offer that meets those expressed needs, and have you designed a delivery system that matches that offer? More particularly, you need a productivity system that encourages discretionary effort from your people. Culture is about your modus operandi—your ways of doing. Honest Conversations.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Yes, some jobs may be inherently boring, but you can give anyone in such a job at least one task or project that’s stimulating to that person. Name him or her to a suggestion committee that meets once a week, or to some other special group. Start telling them how the company makes money and how it spends money.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Yes, I was bored out of my mind, and I remember that part vividly. I was focusing, I thought, on anything other than your monotonous voice boring us to tears. Do you find your calendar full of meetings that take you nowhere? More Quotes on Focus. I am instantly transported back to elementary school. Zig Ziglar.

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QAspire

MAY 14, 2012

I love SCRUM methodology because it focuses on making meetings effective. A quick stand-up meeting everyday to track progress. One of the biggest wastes in any organization are ineffective meetings. I have written earlier about effective meetings and there are other great authors who have written about it.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

No emails, no social media, no phones, no meetings. Not to be more productive—though that’s probably going to happen. But because research shows that we’re more likely to answer the question, “How was your day?” We need joy in our work, and we need time to sleep and be bored and be creative or else the work actually suffers.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 5, 2018

Choose to camp out from start to finish, even when you get bored. Know your limitations and refuel your physical, mental, emotional, and relational tanks between meetings, phone calls, trips, and new initiatives. Leaders are bombarded with opportunities to do more and go farther and faster. Take another seat and repeat.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JANUARY 15, 2013

If your team meetings are boring or wasting your time, explain the problem from your point of view. If the problem is that it’s hard to sit still for long meetings, they might be willing to take breaks or perhaps you could stand up when you feel the need. Then do a reality test. Do others feel the same way?

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 8, 2017

Guest post by Dianna Booher : Millennials drop an employer quicker than they leave a boring party when they see no career-growth opportunities. Did they find another book, course, podcast, blog, or app more useful? Career development is the cool calling card––a powerful tease to job seekers you’d like to have join your team.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2023

What’s more, it will probably add to your home’s market value as well. Some may think that whiteboards are boring. It’s now time to take back your posture and invest in a new, more ergonomic desk. It may also make the room seem more office-like. However, having a dedicated WFH setup helps a lot.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Questioning Banish boring questions. Coaching skills allow for more direct and straightforward conversations about performance and behaviour. There is always more than one way. What did I miss in the whirlwind of meetings and conversations today? This empowerment is the core to great coaches. It also makes it FUN!

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Nathan Magnuson

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

It Doesn’t Meet a Real (or Felt) Business Need. One of the hallmarks of adult learning theory is that professionals are much more likely to want to participate in a learning event they recognize will help them solve a problem or pain-point they already have. It’s Boring. Less is generally more.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 6, 2019

Do more of what’s not working. ” Then ask them to do more of what is not working. Doing more of what is not working may create a difference that matters to where you and the team notice what is not working and what can work through the amplification of the dysfunction. Make team meetings voluntary.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 12, 2012

Moreover, whether you’re meeting one-to-one or presenting to a packed audience, small changes can make a big difference. Similarly, in meetings or presentations, your gestures alone can send significant signals. Do you look bored or disconnected—or respectfully engaged? For more information, visit thecredibilitycode.com.

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Career Advancement

AUGUST 27, 2018

Those who are proactive at shaping their own brand identity are more likely to be recognized and to get ahead in the workplace. Meet with them to discuss what they’re doing, and then make a pitch about how you can help. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.”.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

MAY 13, 2012

We hear a lot about how we need to get rid of meetings in our organizations. I would argue that we need to get rid of poorly planned and executed meetings. We still need good meetings; they are a way for everyone to be involved and engaged in dialog with each other. The unsaid gets surfaced without consequences.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Here’s to hoping the hire lasts more than three months … which is more than the last one did. This scene is repeated more times than we can believe. More research indicates that 69% of employees say they are likely to stay with a company for at least three years after a great onboarding experience.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2015

You see people working, meeting, and crossing the hallways. Three Meeting Rooms. You may observe these three situations: Meeting room one with frowning people who sigh while watching the presentation. Meeting room 3 full of people who are quiet and slow to respond to each other while they check their smartphones under the desk.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 7, 2011

It’s chock full of great strategies and ideas – this is not a boring ‘this is my opinion’ self-help book. It’s more like reading a conversation. While there are always smart kids more kids are graduating high school, or dropping out, with a poor education. How To Pick Yourself Up After You Fail.

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Not just pretend to be listening while you ramble in a meeting, but actually absorb what you are trying to say to them. When they know there’s a glimmer of hope to the finish line, they’ll be more willing to learn what it takes to attain it. People get bored. You want people to listen to you. How do you do that?

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 11, 2016

Here are four more tips for addressing what could feel like an awkward issue: 1. Assess how you would feel in anticipation of the meeting: CLIENT’S NAME Excited, Energized Positive Neutral Negative Resigned, Bored Dread · The clients who received checks in the excited/energized or positive columns probably feel the same way.

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Tim Milburn

MAY 18, 2012

The real problem lies more in providing an environment that’s worth paying attention to. One of the reasons we check out of meetings, lectures, and presentations so quickly is there is no sense of story to the whole thing. The problem is, you might be telling a bad and boring one. More dialogue, less monologue.

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CEO Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Send a detailed agenda in advance of your meetings. Tell your prospects what will happen in the meeting, and what you both expect to accomplish – set an agenda. Nothing is more feared by prospects than a salesperson wasting their time with a boring presentation. Make your demos specific to the prospect's problem.

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HR Digest

APRIL 6, 2024

Some of these mistakes might have even been your own, making the learning process a lot more painful than it needs to be. If you want to set a firm boundary, try to be more polite in explaining that you were unaware of it being assigned to you. If your schedule allows for it, ask them to explain the task to you so you can get to it.

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CoachStation

MARCH 22, 2019

In order to free up space to be more strategic, have a greater impact, be more efficient, and achieve work/life balance, delegating appropriate tasks to others is necessary and even required for managers today. A recent Forbes article asks a great question, “How do you know if you need to delegate more?”

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 22, 2012

I recently participated in two very different but similar meetings. The focus of each of the meetings was exactly the same, but the complexity of each group was completely different. I gained a lot from both experiences, but after a while, I became very bored with the similar group. Guest post by Dr. Andrew L. The Big Picture.

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