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20 Ways to Make Your Meetings More Effective and More Fun.

Destination Innovation

Meetings are unpopular. A study by Steven Rogelberg, of the University of North Carolina surveyed 182 senior managers in a range of industries: 65% said meetings keep them from completing their own work; 71% said meetings are unproductive and 64% said meetings come at the expense of deep thinking. Have Meeting Free Days.

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Could your team cut down meetings to only two days a week?

Idea to Value

Is your team having too many meetings? Do you ever come to the end of a workday and feel stressed because instead of getting any productive work done, you have spent nearly the whole day in back-to-back meetings? 70% of all meetings prevent people being productive. These meetings may seem like the best time to do this.

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Arrange Your Meeting Schedule to Boost Your Energy

Harvard Business Review

Most meeting advice focuses on how to make meetings more effective or how to cut down on the number of meetings you have altogether. But what about how to schedule your meetings alongside other work tasks to best manage your productivity?

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East meets West in understanding Innovation Cultural Orientation

Paul Hobcraft

East and West- the different meeting points in understanding. These help you gain a better understanding of why innovation is often seen through different cultural lenses and can produce very different insights and observations that can lead to completely different innovative solutions to meet different cultural needs.

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How ZoomInfo Helps Overcome the Top Pain Points of Inside Sales

How can sales organizations meet the buyer along the journey at the perfect time? With more access to user reviews, analyst opinion, and industry research, decision-makers are more informed than ever while navigating what is now known as the “buyer’s journey.”. Download this eBook to find out!

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How to Have a Successful Meeting with Your Boss’s Boss

Harvard Business Review

In this article, the author offers practical tips for holding a successful skip-level meeting. After all, leadership is not only about managing those below you, but also navigating the complexities above.

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When a Coworker Undermines You in a Meeting

Harvard Business Review

Feeling undermined, unappreciated, or unsupported by a colleague when you’re both in the same meeting can lead to loss of trust, along with feelings of self-doubt and lack of confidence.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

More meetings. Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer.

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100 Pipeline Plays: The Modern Sales Playbook

Meet your modern sales playbook - See how high-performing sales and marketing teams increase pipeline year-over-year. For the first time, we’re sharing the winning plays that took us from scrappy startup to a publicly traded company. Use our proven data-driven plays to grow your pipeline and crush your revenue targets.

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Cold Calling Tips and Tricks

In fact, less than 2% of today’s cold calls actually result in meetings, and 63% of sales professionals say it’s what they dislike most about their jobs. In recent years, cold calling has become synonymous with rejection and failure.

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The Impact of Direct Dials on Sales Productivity

Leveraging the latest industry research, this eBook highlights the impact of direct dial phone numbers on sales productivity with the goal of empowering reps to have more conversations with prospects, and consequently, schedule more meetings, increase opportunities, and close more business - fast.

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PM Development: How Product People Continue to Learn

Speaker: Greg Coticchia - CEO, Sopheon

Unfortunately, little has changed in the world of product management education, training, or preparation to meet today’s high demand. With all the technological improvements relevant to product management, there is an increasing need to educate new product managers as well as upgrade the abilities of experienced professionals.

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Tough Bosses, Unrealistic Goals, and Other Corporate Challenges That a Customer-Centric Product Strategy Can Empower You to Solve

Speaker: Bob Caporale, Founder of Strategy Generation Company

Have you ever had internal financial goals handed down to you that seem nearly impossible to meet? And have you ever had your boss tell you to just “make those goals happen,” even in the absence of any clear plan that might allow you to do just that? As product managers, we’ve likely all faced this situation at some point in our careers.

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2022 Guide to Corporate Meetings in the Metaverse

Meetings using limited technology often fall short for teams working remotely. So how do you bring spontaneous communication and collaboration to your meetings? Check out this guide to meeting in the Metaverse. Digital fatigue? No sense of purpose or belonging?

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The ABM Benchmark Survey

In a recent survey with Demand Gen Report, we found 59% of experienced practitioners (those with ABM programs more than a year old) indicated their ABM programs are meeting or greatly exceeding their expectations, while only 45% of novices (those with ABM programs less than one year old) could say the same.