Tips, Advice and Best Practices for Efficient Meetings
Most Boards of Directors already have a procedure in place and most still operate with paper documents. Changing an already established method and convincing people to change some habits is not easy. There are a lot of reticence and constraints that can slow down the...
The pandemic has affected many sectors, including nonprofit organizations. Many issues that they have faced and still face today deserve to be highlighted. We are in a time of adaptation and change! Some of the organizations' leaders have used innovative strategies to...
To organize optimal meetings for a board of directors or executive committee, there are many elements to consider: planning meetings, communication between members and directors, writing the agenda and minutes, managing documentation, making decisions, and tracking...
Who hasn't attended an endless meeting with the feeling that they are always getting away from the topic or without knowing the real relevance? Wasting precious time with meetings that are not always productive is very common. Even...
There are countless meetings in a company every day, many of which are informal, of course. Only at Microsoft with their Teams tool, in April 2020, they had a record number of meetings: 2.7 billion! That’s a lot of online meetings. But beyond the number of...
The recording is omnipresent in our phone exchanges with our suppliers and partners. It has even become a habit to hear: “your call can be recorded or listened to”, to the point where we ignore it. With the advent of smartphones, spontaneous audio recording has become...
Useful benefits of making a to-do list The main purpose of making a to-do list is to lighten the mind, to comfort us in all that we have to accomplish. It is to write down tasks that we do not want to forget, but above all, to reduce stress. This is...
With the growing popularity of teleworking caused by the pandemic, more remote meetings are being held. Sometimes we work with teammates, collaborators or clients who are located at various sites, or even in other countries. « Nearly half (47%) of Canadian employees...
Over the summer, Beenote surveyed 3000 account managers to get an overview of the typical profile of people who meet and their use of our meeting management tool. People who hold meetings are… 60% of men who are mainly between 40 and 59 years old whose...
The bee is the emblem of Beenote. Have you ever wondered why? Because it makes a nice logo? Yes but no! Look for more … The reason is simple, there is a huge parallel between how we work in the office and the way bees work. Let’s see many similarities … The importance...
It’s always inspiring to discover the work practices of big companies. They are synonymous of success and we, therefore, wish to be inspired by it, hoping, eventually, to have the same success. We’ve already talked about Mark Zuckerberg’s tips for improving...
Meetings require and generate a significant amount of information that must be shared in writing before, during, and after the meeting. Before the meeting First of all, before holding a meeting, there is an agenda that must be drawn up, which contains both the topics,...
You have certainly attended a monotonous meeting that has aroused you to fall asleep. When you prepare your own presentation, you must keep that in your mind and do your best so people don’t get bored. If you have frequent meetings, you may have noticed that it...
Meeting, a word that sounds so bad for some people and to others, seems to be their main thing. There are those who just question in their mind all meetings they are invited to and those who need to have a meeting to discuss what we should discuss for the next...
Meetings are an important part of the lives of workers. A house survey revealed that 62.1% of people participate in 10 meetings a month, at least, and some even attend 30 meetings every month. Despite all that time spent in meetings, several annoying patterns remain...
If I asked you to raise your hands to tell me if you like meetings, I would probably see one or two people timidly lift their arms. We often wonder what the reasons to hold a meeting are or what the purpose of the meeting is… Unfortunately, meetings have become the...
An extroverted society We probably all have a caricatured view of introverts at work. However, what do author J.K. Rowling, Facebook founding president Mark Zuckerberg, businessman Warren Buffett, and actress Emma Watson have in common? Believe it or not, they’re all...
You’ve probably already attended a business lunch during which some participants had a behavior that you considered inappropriate. Not very nice, isn’t it? During a business lunch, it’s essential to observe certain rules in order not to undermine your credibility in...
