This episode is, “Virtual Meetings and Time Zone Treatment!"
In this show we discuss A Stone* of Solutions™ including: 1. Earth is our home planet. 2. We have colleagues, clients, customers, vendors, partners and knowledge experts located around our planet that we need to have meetings with! 3. Due to the physical size of our planet and the rotation of it and other bodies in our solar system, we experience different conditions at the same moment (daylight, darkness, etc.). 4. How many times zones now? "Given a 24-hour day and 360 degrees of longitude around the Earth, it is obvious that the world's standard time zones have to be 15 degrees wide, on average. It is worth mentioning that some sources claim there are 24 standard time zones, while others say there are 25 time zones. The perspective of the number of time zones depends on the definition of a time zone versus the International Date Line." http://www.timeanddate.com/time/time-zones-history.html 5. What? 24 or 25 different time zones is too many! 6. It could be worse. There used to be over 300 time zones in the US alone! 7. Why bother? Who needs people in different time zones in a meeting?If you don't want clients, customers, vendors, partners or any other opportunities outside 'your' time zone, then that is your choice. It is potentially going to harm your organization (regarding growth, talented labor, etc.). It is a choice. 8. If you decide you do want to explore the best of what the planet has to offer for your organizational meetings (clients, talent, experts, etc.),how do you do so most effectively? 9. DO NOT: - State that "it is only one person in that time zone" (so they have to attend at 3 am or else not come at all). - Exclude diverse time zone attendees entirely from the meeting because "it is too much hassle" (we'll just [...] This is the debut episode of our new series, MEETING MAYHEM™! We face meetings around the world, in person, via phone, via video, via online chat, while standing, while sitting, while walking, in boardrooms, hallways, and everywhere else humans may gather…let’s immediately eradicate the most destructive meetings! The most destructive meetings waste time, talent and resources. They create mayhem and this series is dedicated to stopping them. Let’s make meetings effective and banish the mayhem that poor meeting management (from organizers, presenters and attendees) causes! In this series we work through techniques to tame and mitigate meeting mayhem anywhere, any time for anyone!
This episode is, “Virtual Meetings and MUTE!” In this show we discuss A Stone* of Solutions™ including: 1. Meetings are marvelous when conducted in the most optimal manner. 2. Virtual meetings are virtuous. “Why do we have meetings and events? 1) to exchange information; and 2) to network. Virtual meeting and event technology can facilitate these two objectives easily.” http://www.businessweek.com/debateroom/archives/2009/01/virtual_meetings_will_erase_face_to_face.html 3. Meeting management mastery is a skill set that requires specific knowledge and experience. 4. Insufficient numbers of staff members are formally educated on meeting management mastery. From The Science and Fiction of Meetings from MIT Sloan, [...] |
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