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12 Best Practices for Leading Effective Meetings

Nathan Magnuson

It is to inform, brainstorm, plan, persuade, decide, etc.? The busier your audience, the earlier your meeting invitations should be sent. Resist the urge to take phone calls or check emails). But anything extra you can do to help your audience look forward to attending your meetings will go a long way. Before the Meeting.

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Big Thinking for Small Business

Women on Business

So if your audience has style, and wants to know where to find more, lead them to it. That’s OK in the beginning when you’re trying to earn a reputation, but part of acting like a big business is resisting the temptation to under sell yourself. It’s not by lowering your pricing or throwing in extra products or services.

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Four Types of Meetings that Lead to Effective Organizations

CO2

The traditional model of learning–with a speaker disseminating information to a passive audience–has been proven ineffective. Research has shown that group brainstorming is not the most effective means for generating the greatest number of original ideas. Who are potential resisters and why? Creative Meetings.

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How to Tell a Great Story

Harvard Business Review

Every storytelling exercise should begin by asking: Who is my audience and what is the message I want to share with them? And whenever possible, you should endeavor to “make the audience or employees the hero,” says Morgan. But when the storyteller talks about how great they are, the audience shuts down.” Start with a message.

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What Design Thinking Is Doing for the San Francisco Opera

Harvard Business Review

.” Complete with a “Wheel of Songs” that audience members could spin to select the next song, a live DJ, opera-themed drinks, and costumes for attendees to try on, it was designed to remove the intimidation often felt by those new to opera and introduce a younger, hipper audience to operatic music.

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You Can’t Achieve Your Goals Without the Right Support

Harvard Business Review

As a starting point, both leaders had to address their resistance to moving forward. Honor your cognitive process by having someone you can “white board” and brainstorm with on the nitty-gritty details. This person is notably different from the audiences you ultimately need to communicate with in a clear and succinct way.