Archive for November, 2007

The People Cost Meter for your next meeting

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

People often forget about one of the most important cost factors of a meeting – the audience’s compensation. I’ve seen people balk at the cost of a $1000 cost of PPT visual support costs. This is kind of penny wise, but pound foolish if they considered the 400 people in thier audience was probably costing them $20,000+ per hour. And the cost of not communicating thier important message could priceless.

www.payscale.com came up with a cute little widget tool to monitor the cost of your meeting. Check it out: Meeting Cost Minder.

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Good Meetings can be Addicting!

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Have you had one lately? Maybe one of the reasons som many people complain about bad meetings is that they don’t know how to have a good meeting. They don’t know what it takes to plan for and facilitate a good meeting. It takes work. It takes time. A good meeting can be motivating and great fun.

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