Critiquing a meeting means analyzing its overall effectiveness. A careful analysis offers important feedback for the meeting organizer or facilitator. It is your responsibility to determine if the ...

This is the first in a two-part series on managing your workload in between meetings. Part 2 will offer tips on making the most of the meetings you do attend. If you’re like most employees, you ...

As a business owner, you know the importance of having meetings with co-workers, clients and employees. Meetings enable you to make a sale or keep workers updated on company policies. Microsoft ...

It’s official: That meeting really should have been an email. Five thousand knowledge workers across four continents took part in a recent survey by Australian software giant Atlassian. The vast ...

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 ...

Chris Williams, ex-VP of HR at Microsoft, created an easy way to plan meetings. Participants are ranked from level five to one based on their importance. Williams said level-one participants offer ...

Have you ever heard anyone complain a meeting was too short? (Neither have I.) Ever been frustrated at a meeting by rambling chitchat chewing up time while work remains undone... or by stragglers ...

During a recent interview, someone asked me the following questions: “You say to make every meeting optional. That’s provocative, but is it practical? How would that work? Does anyone do that?” In my ...

Outlook Calendar is an efficient and useful organization tool if you are one of those regularly scheduled meetings. When you have several meetings aligned in a day, knowing who will be attending a ...