When is the best time, how to meet, and what most frustrates professionals about meetings was the subject of a major research project by Doodle, the online scheduling company (Read it here), who surveyed over 6,500 professionals involved in over 19 million meetings. The report makes fascinating reading, and should …
When the Minority Knows More Than the Majority
Wednesday, October 31, 2018Majority rule is no longer the best way to run a board meeting. Randall Peterson writes in his article ‘It’s Time to vote Majority Rule off the Company Board’ (click on the link to read) mounts the case that the simple majority potentially makes a worse decision when they ignore …
Book Review – Kill Bad Meetings
Wednesday, October 31, 2018Cut 50% of your meetings, transform your culture, improve collaboration and accelerate decisions. This is the claim of authors Kevan Hall and Alan Hall in their 2017 book ‘Kill Bad Meetings’. Frustrated at inefficient, ineffective and unnecessary meetings, the authors draw on their considerable business experience and research to show …
Running Better Meetings
Sunday, May 8, 2016It is a common fallacy that organisations that have a lot of meetings must be good at meetings. In reality, they typically just perpetuate the embedded meeting culture that is often not very effective. There is a wealth of resources on running effective meetings, and one of the latest offerings …
Board Members – How Long is Long Enough?
Sunday, February 28, 2016How long should someone be a member of your board? Until recently conventional thinking was to cap someone’s tenure at 9 years. It was felt that any longer and the member would become “captive” to management and no longer be considered independent. Some national regulators already impose such restrictions on …
A New Look At Meetings
Monday, April 20, 2015My workplace utilises a number of meetings, many of which are necessary, some of which, in my opinion, are not needed. Recent research from the United Kingdom and reported by the Australian Human Resource Institute online suggest that up to three-quarters of meetings are “proving completely unnecessary”. Additionally, the article …