Meeting Management
Looking for ways to make your boss’s life a little easier on the road? Svilen Petrov, writing at Wings Journal, shares these business travel tips from frequent traveler Eric Pulier.
Introverted? That’s just fine—but making your presence known in meetings is both important and totally doable.
Timing is crucial when booking travel, especially when flying around the time of U.S. holidays. Here are the best times to buy for different times of the year.
Unless you’re a trained stenographer, keeping thorough minutes can be a challenge. If you’re responsible for taking minutes, here are three tips to help you improve your skills.
Meetings can be a wonderful collaboration tool or a wasteful, hostile time sink. Ideally they give colleagues an opportunity to share ideas, give kudos and enjoy one another’s company. They “are also a place where people jockey for position, work out disagreements and hurt each other’s feelings,” says Gretchen Rubin. She outlines some phrases that can really serve to undermine others.
Maya Hu-Chan offers these tips to take some of the stress out of flying and help you feel more refreshed when you land.
Gail Taymor loved her new admin job at a big architectural firm—for exactly nine days. Then her boss asked her to take the minutes at the monthly board meeting.
Traveling for business can be one giant headache after another, especially if you’re new at it. Here’s some advice for streamlining the process from regular business travelers.
Here are some of the engine’s tricks to make travel booking even easier.
People talking a mile a minute, not staying on topic, moving on to the next issue when action items are still clearly hanging … these things are just plain going to happen when you’re a minute-taker. But you can’t exert a whole lot of control over the unruly group in that conference room. What you can control is the structure you’ve set up well in advance to handle any meeting.
16 widely varied questions about taking minutes answered.
Small budgets and the need to save money for the company are the reality for many organizations these days. Writing at Business.com, Brian Hughes shares tips for finding cheaper travel plans and activities.
When it comes to business travel, the company wants to save as much money as possible.
