Make conference calls more productive
Here are some suggestions to make more people stay alert during conference calls.
Category: Meeting Management
New technology for booking travel
Elaine Glusac, writing at The New York Times, offers these examples of data-driven travel planners.
Find better hotel prices
The key to saving money on travel, predictably, is getting really good with your deep online searches. Here are some tips.
Help your boss travel more smoothly
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.
Time for you to speak up in meetings
Introverted? That’s just fine—but making your presence known in meetings is both important and totally doable.
Book flights at the right time
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.
3 tips for improving minute-taking skills
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.
Avoid saying these 5 things in meetings
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.
11 tricks take the stress out of flying
Maya Hu-Chan offers these tips to take some of the stress out of flying and help you feel more refreshed when you land.
A nervous admin jumps into the minute-taking fire
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.