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 annual general meeting (AGM) is a crucial meeting for the proper functioning of almost any type of organization. It is a democratic and decisive moment to review the year and make future decisions. Let's see together how to organize an annual general meeting...
Change can be a drag for some people, especially when it comes to adopting a new technological tool at work. Human beings generally prefer to stay in their socks! Implementing meeting management software can seem like a huge undertaking because it involves everyone in...
We have a lot of meetings, but it’s not “glamorous” to think about improving them. There is not much openness to change; we prefer to keep the status quo. Why change? It’s the way we’ve always done it. But you are the one who wants better meetings! Who thinks it could...
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...
You may have heard of meetings in your workplace called “scrum”? Scrums are much more than meetings! The name given to these meetings is actually “daily scrum”. It is one of the structures integrated into the scrum method (therefore much broader than meetings) which...
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...
Definition of SEC Meetings According to the official website of the French government, the Social and Economic Committee (SEC) is defined as follows: The SEC replaces the elected representatives of the personnel in the company. It merges all the staff representative...
What is QUORUM? A quorum is the minimum number of members required at a meeting for the decisions voted on are valid. If the quorum is not reached, the vote cannot take place at the meeting then the decision cannot be taken and the status quo will be maintained. What...
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...
Organizations, whether public or private, small or large, should aim as their main goal, better governance. Almost all people think this statement is true. But their question is what is governance and how do we achieve it? In this article, you will find out the...
One of the biggest hurdles for companies to use new technology is the change of habits and the difficulty of adaptation. By using an intuitive and easy-to-use meeting management software, your entire meeting process is simplified. Here’s what the 3...
It is not uncommon to see stacks of paper fill the void of some of our offices. It becomes difficult to search for information through all this hubbub of paper. When added to this, the agendas to read and share as well as the minutes of meetings to keep, it becomes...
First of all, it is important to answer the question What is a walking meeting? The walking meeting is a working meeting that occurs while walking, between colleagues, clients, or other stakeholders, to discuss common issues. It is a meeting held outside...
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...
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...
