Think of all the team meetings you’ve attended in your working life. Chances are that they didn’t represent a high point in your career. Leaving aside the basic fact that managers tend to like meetings a lot more than ‘makers’…
How To Stop Your Boss From Inadvertently Screwing Up Your Meeting
I wonder if you’ve found yourself in a situation like this? Recently one of my former Appreciative Inquiry students called me to get some advice. She was running an ideas generation meeting, using Appreciative Inquiry as a broad framework. Her…
The best business NLP book for meetings and negotiations
Influencing With Integrity by Genie Z Laborde 272pp (Crown House Publishing 1995) The classic work on using NLP in sales, meetings and negotiation. One of the best things about this book is that, as the title suggests, it effectively answers that old…
Tips For Running Emotionally Intelligent Meetings – from NLP and elsewhere
Do you ever find yourself in meetings that drag on, don’t achieve as much as they should, in which people seem to be bored and disengaged? When I was an employee, I took part in a lot of unproductive meetings.…
Meetings – thought for the day
In most meetings, pride or caution still forbids one to say what one feels most deeply.
– Theodore Zeldin, An Intimate History Of Humanity
I think he’s talking about ‘meetings’ in the sense of everyday human encounters, but it’s probably at least as true about business meetings.