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Navigator makes meetings feel like the best part of work: focused, purposeful, and energizing. Via Ana Cristina Pratas 
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"Staff Meeting.
There are often no more dreaded words in a teacher’s vocabulary than those. The time we all get together to hear the principal talk about due dates, important initiatives, and the increasing workload on our plate. The place where teachers show up with papers to grade, emails to send, and conversations to catch up on. The one thing sure to not be tackled is the true task of schools – changing a teacher’s practice and improving student learning." Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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We’ve all been in conference rooms when a thought crosses our minds: What’s the point of this meeting? Why is this person talking so much? When will this end? Many folks feel like meetings are either a complete waste of time, or at best, a necessary evil.To make matters worse, the more senior you become, the more time you’ll spend in meetings. Some spend their whole day shuffling from one meeting to another. Bad meetings tend to exhaust your energy and leave you distracted, as you question the merits of how you’re spending your time. Because focused attention is a mana
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A badly managed meeting can suck away time, energy and money without being productive for anyone. But it is avoidable: Here's what you should and shouldn't do when meeting in a group at work, whether you are leading the meeting or not.
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Nothing drains happiness faster than a long, unproductive meeting. You’re bored; you’re not getting anything done; emails are piling up while you sit, trapped. Just think: if you cut out
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“I’ve been giving it some thought,” I said in a team meeting at one of my previous jobs, “And I really think the partner listings on our website would function better if we—” “Let me jump in,” interjected one of my co-workers, before I was even able to finish my thought and put my idea out on the table.
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Whether you host or just have to attend regular meetings, you can make them more efficient by clarifying the type of meeting it is. You’ll get everyone on the same page, your meeting will be more productive, and you’ll spend the time talking about what’s important.
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“If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be: meetings.” Does that quote, from Dave Barry resonate with you? We’ve all been there. The staff meeting that goes on and on, usually with one person enjoying the sound of their voice a little bit too much. “Employees hate meetings because they reveal that self-promotion, sycophancy, dissimulation and constantly talking nonsense in a loud confident voice are more impressive than merely being good at the job”, claims Michael Foley, in his book ‘Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life‘.
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Meetings are the worst. They drag on forever, go off-topic, and keep you from doing more important things. Businessman Lin Wu says you can make your meetings a lot better by forcing everyone to stand.
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