Who’s Responsible? The chair is the person in charge of a meeting. He/she has the authority to regulate a meeting and the responsibility to enforce rules, keep the order, and work toward the ...

Meetings often have a bad reputation. And, to be fair, they deserve it. Long-winded conversations, vague agendas, and bloated calendar invites can leave everyone wondering, “Couldn’t this have been an ...

As the festive season jingles its way into our busy lives, the challenge of efficiently managing meetings becomes ever more ...

GIVEN MY PREFERENCE for order and rules, I propose a follow-up to the seven rules I previously suggested for managing virtual team meetings via e-mail. Rules give us a common base of understanding ...

Meetings make the business world go round. However, it often feels like meetings are actually slowing everything down. There are some stark differences between an effective meeting and a waste of time ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Your team leaves the conference room after a meeting and in their collective sigh, you hear: ...

The Seven Step Meeting is an established process that has been shown to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of meetings. The process encourages shared responsibility for meeting success by ...

Meetings promote collaboration, decision-making, and strategy development, all essential to business operations. However, they can also be a huge waste of time. Each year, 24 billion hours are wasted ...

So many of us have mixed feelings about meetings, perhaps more than ever in the era of Zoom. We get frustrated when our calendars fill up with one meeting after another — yet feel left out, or even ...

My position on meetings? The only person who feels a particular meeting is valuable is the person who called the meeting. Plus, research shows — not that you need research to tell you this — there are ...

Washington County, struggling with profanity and civility during public comment periods, announced new meeting conduct rules. The rules, effective immediately, prohibit obscenity, personal attacks, ...