Sunday, 05 September 2010
You are here: Home
Ten Tips for More Effective Meetings

It's been 28 years since Mr. Michael Doyle and Mr.David Straus wrote their groundbreaking book, “How To Make Meetings Work” in 1976. Are you like many of my clients who gripe about numbing, deadening meetings? As one publication put it, "days, weeks, months, years of our lives are slipping away in stuffy, and overcrowded conference rooms”. Little appears to be accomplished and no one seems to be able to do anything about it.

Doyle and Straus claimed that there were 11 million meetings in the US every day in 1976. Doyle says that there are 25 million today and most of them don't work. If you calculate how much productive time plus lost wages accrue to those sitting in the room, a truly staggering figure emerges which helps you a lot in managing your meetings.
 
Fortunately there are answers for this dilemma.
 
Recommend a Book
Ms.Sheela is very aspiring HR professional  with work experience across verticals and had worked with name like AOL and Mafoi. She is presently an independent hr professional based out of pondicherry catering HR consulting services. She is an enthusiastic to contribute her learning's about the impact of the book"The monk who sold a Ferrari", in which she illustrates the experience of understanding the complexities of day to day life instances we all come across. continue to read the review below and have this on your shelf as recommended.
 
First Day in my First Job

First Day in my First Job

Marianne Choo is a graduate in Communication Studies with a specialisation in journalism. She has worked in government ministries, where she wrote for an in-house public service magazine and helped to draft speeches for public officers. Previously, she has also worked in one of Singapore's pre-eminent academic enrichment centres as an English teacher, and will soon embark on a teaching position in the public education sector. 
 


SCOOP the Prizes

  • Early Bird Prize - For the first & earliest feedback
  • TH-inc. - Prize for the best feedback
  • BQC - for the Best Question posted
  • Sattire of the Month - The Best Comment for the poster

Forthcoming

We are eager to hear about your career dilemmas and challenges at work and look forward to answering your questions in coming editions. You can email them ram@scoophr.com

TEAM SCOOP

  • Ram Kishowre.C
  • Prashanth Vignesh.A
  • Rambabu.B
  • Naveen Kumar.T
  • Pradyumna.N.V
  • Praneeth.S.B
  • Vijay.k
  • Yaswanthi.C.K

Your are currently browsing this site with Internet Explorer 6 (IE6).

Your current web browser must be updated to version 7 of Internet Explorer (IE7) to take advantage of all of template's capabilities.

Why should I upgrade to Internet Explorer 7? Microsoft has redesigned Internet Explorer from the ground up, with better security, new capabilities, and a whole new interface. Many changes resulted from the feedback of millions of users who tested prerelease versions of the new browser. The most compelling reason to upgrade is the improved security. The Internet of today is not the Internet of five years ago. There are dangers that simply didn't exist back in 2001, when Internet Explorer 6 was released to the world. Internet Explorer 7 makes surfing the web fundamentally safer by offering greater protection against viruses, spyware, and other online risks.

Get free downloads for Internet Explorer 7, including recommended updates as they become available. To download Internet Explorer 7 in the language of your choice, please visit the Internet Explorer 7 worldwide page.