With 2022 around the corner, now is the perfect time to take stock of what we've learned about meetings and what can make them awesome. What can you do to make your meetings soar? Here are 12 ideas: 1) Start and end your meetings on time 2) Include a purpose, goal,...
We're excited to announce the release of Ratings 2.0 for all MeetingScience Members! In this blog post, we'll share a little bit more about the history of MeetingScience ratings and why we made the investment to build the next generation of rating capabilities....
David Gelles writes for the Corner Office column for The New York Times. In this article, he interviews leaders from Chegg, Cisco, EventBrite, Microsoft, Pierpont Communications, Splunk, and Affirm to investigate the rise or fall of pandemic productivity and how...
Tammy Sun, the quintessential Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur, fired off an uncharacteristically low-tech Tweet recently. “Zoom fatigue has me wanting a landline and a rotary phone,” wrote the founder and CEO of Carrot, a startup that provides fertility benefit plans...
In the nineteen-sixties, Jack Nilles, a physicist turned engineer, built long-range communications systems at the U.S. Air Force’s Aerial Reconnaissance Laboratory, near Dayton, Ohio. Later, at nasa, in Houston, he helped design space probes that could send messages...
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Meetings, according to academic research, are the worst. An estimated 36 million to 56 million take place daily in US workplaces alone, according to consulting firm Lucid Meetings. They interrupt the day and thwart valuable deep work; they drain time, morale,...
The new normal. That is what we keep hearing: the new normal of how we live, how we work, how we survive. For the past month, we at Adweek have been experiencing many of the same things most agencies and media organizations have been going through—canceled events,...
What do you think about every time you receive an invitation to a business meeting? Do you picture a tedious meeting where hours drag on, but nothing much gets done? If so, you are one of the countless managers around the world that wants to improve this system to be...
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With the rapid adoption of enterprise-grade digital meeting and workstream collaboration tools in response to the coronavirus pandemic, organizations need to improve operations to support a newly remote workforce. As reliance on collaboration tools grows, Gartner has...
Virtual meetings are a necessary evil. How you manage your meetings says a lot about how you're managing your organization; especially if your workforce is remote. If you start late, spend a lot of time chit-chatting, and wander around in your meetings with no...
It’s unfortunate but true: The further you progress in your career, the more meetings you go to. While some are productive, many are disorganized, inefficient, and distracting. It’s also hard to check off your other work tasks when you’re constantly going from meeting...
When the novel coronavirus started spreading across Asia in January, forcing the world’s largest work-from-home experiment, not many knew what to expect, least of all Bloomberg’s 400-plus journalists in the region. Six weeks later (and counting), only now are some...
Nothing kills momentum at the start of a meeting like a 15-minute delay because people need to download software, can’t get the video to work, etc. Prior to a virtual meeting, all participants should test the technology and make sure they are comfortable with the...
It’s important to remember that while offices are usually designed to be peaceful spaces that are conducive to concentration, our homes can be very different. Asking meeting participants to give a quick ‘virtual tour’ of their environment, in which they detail any...