The 1:3 principle means that every meeting should have a specific, ONE-sentence purpose, and it should have no more than THREE desired outcomes. If you need to get more than three outcomes from a single meeting, you need to schedule another meeting. KEY 2: Timing Always start your meetings exactly on time and stop five minutes before the scheduled end time. Why stop five minutes early? The reason most people show up late for meetings is because they are booked back to back. If you were an Olympic athlete showing up for your event, you wouldn’t show up just as the gun was going off. You would want to get there at least five minutes ahead of time to prepare. That’s why you should end every meeting and phone call five minutes before the scheduled end time so that you can be at your next meeting on time and prepared. If you don’t show up five minutes before the start time, you’re late. Don’t over-schedule and don’t be selfish with your time by trying to squeeze one more thing in before your meeting. Block your meetings for half the time you initially think you need. For example, if you think you need an hour meeting, force yourself to try it in 30 minutes. If you think you need an entire day, book a half-day. You can get things done in less time if you want…
Agenda For each meeting, you need to decide who the most critical people are who need to be there. Without an agenda, you can’t possibly know who should be at the meeting. Consequently, an effective meeting starts with the agenda. Before the meeting decide: what you want to cover, what order you will present each agenda item, and how many minutes you will spend on each one. Get good at letting people know they don’t always have to attend every meeting. You don’t need your lab technician to be…
out in cheers and applause upon the bill’s approval. Upon researching it later, I learned this would affect over 2,000 service employees of “city-subsidized” buildings, including universities and hospitals. Following the conclusion of the agenda items were some additional resolutions, all unanimously passing, and speeches made by council members. 2. Critical Evaluation of the Meeting Although the historic interior was as impressive and grand as I had hoped it would be, I was surprised the…
1. Why do you want to be a Lead Consultant? Being a lead consultant would allow me to better my team, myself and next year’s associate consultants. I know that I have what it takes to lead a team at SOURCE. As an ESTJ, I live for organization and deadlines. I love to updates calendars, make agendas and create timelines. Two of my greatest strengths are organizing others’ ideas and thinking of pragmatic approaches to big ideas. I know that having this personality type would allow me to create…
The first discussion is always on what actions there were, who was responsible and what the progress is. The progress is recorded in the minutes along with a description of what the person responsible for the action has done and, if need be, what further steps need to be taken. The action is recorded as ‘Still Outstanding’ and discussed again at the next meeting. This process continues until the action is completed. In the past, actions had not been monitored as rigorously and a number of…
We have not yet determined a suitable time for us to meet that fits best with our schedules. If one group members cannot be present, it is still important to hold meetings. In the case that someone is absent, someone will take meeting minutes and forward it out to the group in an email. If our schedules do not align and we cannot ever hold in-person meetings, we will communicate through technology including email, GroupMe, and Google Docs. It will be very difficult to find a time to meet that…
Bergman had made a promised with Dr. Wigand, that if he stood up, 60 Minutes would interview him. When CBS decided to remove Wigand's story before it aired, Bergman uncovered that the cause was that there was a lawsuit launched by the tobacco industry against the network. The network became a cowardice under all of the stress, theorizing that airing the interview would welcome a multimillion-dollar lawsuit from Brown & Williamson and danger its pending sale to the Westinghouse Electric…
"Catherine! Wake up! You overslept. Don 't want to be late on the first day of school, you have 30 minutes!" My over excited mum squeaked. I was 17 and yet she acts like I am a 10 year old on their birthday. So far, I have been to literally 12 different schools in the last 3 years, so it is hard being excited for another one. After about another 5 long minutes, I decided to finally get out of bed. "Honey, you have 5 minutes before we have to leave!" My mum yelled at the top of her lungs. "You…
For Coca-Cola, its boundaries have undergone a substantial transformation as a result of organizational acquisitions. For example, the Coca-Cola Company acquired Minute Maid in 1960 (“The Minute Maid Company History,” n.d.). In 1993, the Coca-Cola Company acquired Thums Up -- a spicy cola beverage company that originated in India (“20 Years Later: A Look Back at Coke’s Dramatic 1993 Return to India, 2013”). Two years later, they acquired the root-beer beverage company Barq’s Incorporated…
Mrs. Snavely Honors U.S. History 3 5/20/24 102 Minutes Critical Book Analysis. 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer and co-author Kevin Flynn is a somber novel about the 2001 terrorist attack on the Twin Towers. In an interview, Jim Dwyer said his purpose for writing this book was to tell the stories of the people who had to survive inside the Twin Towers, which he believed was just as important as the aftermath of this event. The 9/11 terrorist attacks seemed like a horrific event that a human being…