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....
As business owners embrace virtual events as a cost-effective method to achieve a myriad of goals, including webinars, training, and conferences, it's important to ensure that effective communication isn't being traded for bottom-line savings. While it's unlikely that...
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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When working with virtual meetings, many different variables come into play that the project manager must be aware of, including: the levels of trust in the team; the urgency of the work; the potential for conflict; the need for in-depth conversations; the mixture of...
Mark's boss has agreed that he can work away from the office three days a week and, this morning, he set up his laptop on the kitchen table, ready to tackle the long list of things he needs to do. But, eight hours later, that list hasn't changed much! What's he been...
As most startup founders and entrepreneurs can tell you these days, meeting hangovers are real. Right now people are meeting online for everything from work, to happy hours with friends, to therapy sessions or even working out. A large number of these meetings can...
Why have a meeting anyway? Why indeed? A great many important matters are quite satisfactorily conducted by a single individual who consults nobody. A great many more are resolved by a letter, a memo, a phone call, or a simple conversation between two people....
Conference calls and video conferencing are the worst. You can write off the first several minutes because you and your colleagues will be troubleshooting technical issues, checking that everyone can see what's being shared on the screen, and struggling to mute or...
You’ve probably heard this advice about meetings before: Set an agenda and stick to it. But if the purpose of your meeting is to solve a complex challenge, this advice couldn’t be more wrong. Complex problems — like how to grow a company faster, or realize the...
It's no secret that the former Apple CEO was no fan of PowerPoint. He said: "I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking. People confront problems by creating presentations. I want them to engage, to hash things out at the table, rather than show...
"In my forty years of work, I always complained about long, boring and unproductive meetings, so join the club! Yes, old style meetings have negative effects on morale, productivity and motivation. So, why can’t meetings be shorter, more productive and even, dare I...
What if You Had a Four-Day Week? People have been predicting a four-day workweek for decades, so what’s taking so long? The idea pops up every so often in expectant headlines. Just last week, Microsoft Japan inspired a flood of stories after reporting that, in a...
Does your organization have time management difficulties? When we asked nearly 1,500 executives across the globe to tell us how they spent their time, we found that only 9 percent of the respondents deemed themselves “very satisfied” with their current allocation....