Meetings: Stand and Deliver

Posted by on Nov 24, 2010 in assertiveness, business, Leadership, meetings, teamwork | 3 comments

Today, I’m working through our Radical Time Management workshop with a group of business owners who have signed up to QUB’s CPD programme.   One aspect of today will be to discuss how to decide whether a meeting is really necessary, how to get out of meetings, delegate someone to go in your place.  However, should it arise that a meeting is entirely necessary, then here are the...

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Let’s Meet for a Mocha at Eleven

Posted by on Aug 29, 2008 in business | 0 comments

You know the drill.  You wake up in a panic.  You shower, you don the immaculate (and maybe a little uncomfortable) pinstripe suit, you eat a light breakfast, you battle the traffic, you arrive promptly at 9.15am.  Just as your clones arrive and take a seat, you are ushered into a cool, featureless room, where three, remote figures shake your hand monotonously.  One is the regulatory...

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