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Writing effective meeting minutes – the argument for collaboration

Svava

Face-to-face meetings, hybrid meetings, or virtual ones – no matter what you prefer, taking notes is a must to create usable minutes. Many office workers are struggling with unproductive and inefficient meetings. Swedish studies show that 40% of meeting attendees don’t know what has actually been decided.

Meeting 52
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Calculating the Cost of Meetings

Michael Roberto

Source: Getty Images Kaz Nejatian, Chief Operating Officer of Canadian e-commerce company Shopify, has created a meeting cost calculator for his organization. Nejatian developed the software program to calculate the cost of meetings during a company hack-a-thon. Is there any danger though in trying to reduce the number of meetings?

Meeting 49
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The Value of E-Learning and CMOE’s Top 5 Trending Courses

CMOE

Completing courses virtually reduces the time learners spend on training. E-delivery ensures that training is consistent and meets standards throughout the organization. Here is a list of our five most popular digital courses for your consideration. E-learning is cost-effective for organizations. Applied Strategic Thinking®.

Course 52
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Acumen Academy & IDEO Human-Centered Design Course

InnovationTraining.org

Learn about human-centered design in this introductory course from Acumen and IDEO. Throughout the online course, you’ll be guided through a four-step process for designing breakthrough ideas to address problem-solving for real life challenges your organization may be facing. Design Thinking Mindsets for Human-Centered Design.

Course 52
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Meet Dan Magdich, Brunner VP, Executive Creative Director Who Runs on Endless Creative Curiosity

Brunner

Looking back, 18-year-old me would have never imagined collaborating with brands like Google, Dropbox, Church’s Texas Chicken, Starbucks, Marvel, The Home Depot Rental, Nationwide. We are freakishly collaborative. That collaboration extends to clients and production partners. She saw creative potential and that was enough.

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Your Job Is to Attend Meetings

Innovation Architecture

People distinguish between attending meetings and doing their jobs: “all these meetings are getting in the way of my real work.". Implicit in this complaint—"I don't have time to get my job done"—is that meetings are an unwelcome imposition upon our more life-affirming endeavors. What does that mean, exactly?

Meeting 52
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Rethinking Meetings and Conference: Don’t Automate, Innovate

Stephen Shapiro

Currently, we are unable to conduct in-person, face-to-face meetings. In other words, create a virtual version of the live meeting. We don’t want to deliver online meetings or presentations the way we conduct them in-person. In fact, I would argue that many of our face-to-face meetings were poorly designed to begin with.