Events at work often involving others. There can be meetings for one's team, a department, a 1:1 with a manager or 1:1 with a subordinate if applicable. Questions here will usually revolve around handling meetings in terms of schedule, etiquette and other issues.
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Penalty for being late to a meeting
We are using Scrum and our manager decided that if somebody lates to the daily scrum (which is in the morning) he or she have to buy a piece of chocolate (or something like that) for the others. Is it ...
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Business Lunch or Power Breakfast? [closed]
I work in a small start-up company as a "Chief Technical Officer" (a rather auspicious title considering the company has two employees and a CEO), and while the job is incredibly casual, I am often ...
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How to act in a meeting when everyone is a manager except me?
Sometimes I join some meetings where everyone is a manager, like department managers to discuss a problem or a situation which needs the joined effort of multiple departments. Anyway I am no manager ...
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How can I get out of meetings? [duplicate]
We have a LOT of meetings at my job.
Individual departments have meetings. Then, people from every department have cross-department meetings to make sure everyone is on the same page. Somehow ...
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Meeting starting before I'm contracted to start working
My scheduled hours of my office are 09:30-17:30, and we have a big project starting, which will cost the company lots of money if it fails.
The project manager for this project has scheduled ...
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Is it improper to use Powerpoint to ask questions?
When inheriting a pre-existing project/task, what's the best way to conduct a meeting in which the primary purpose is for the meeting lead to be more informed, as opposed to the other members?
I'm ...
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Does a company need a meeting code of conduct?
A couple of months ago a teamwork consultant came in and assigned a few of us to write a meeting code of conduct. The sample he gave us to work on was several pages long. At this point, I looked up ...
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Staying awake in meetings with projectors? [closed]
I have this reoccurring problem. It is 9/10/11am and I am at a meeting where I sit either one chair or two away from a large projector screen. With the fluorescent lights off, the screen is bright in ...
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What is the appropriate way to deal with “meeting overload?”
Sometimes it becomes difficult to work a normal work week because you are in meetings for so long during the day you have minimal time to actually work during the day.
For example, if you have no ...
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How to transition back to productive work quickly after long meetings?
So here's the deal and I 'm sure many can relate because I've had people say "yep, that's me too.". I will have a single meeting or string of meetings chained together that span say 2-3 hours with no ...
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How can I tell people to get to the point?
I've recently come to a work place where people use a lot of useless business lingo and generally inflate communications with long unproductive fluff. I frequently find myself nodding and hoping they ...
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How to convince colleagues about my point of view in a meeting? [closed]
Often it happens that we have meetings in which I'm fairly convinced about one or more point concerning my field (i.e. ICT) and when I've to discuss with non ICT-expert I've to talk a lot and often it ...
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How do I instill meeting request email etiquette in my team?
My team does not respond to any meeting requests, does not use proper subject for emails and generally does not appear to have any email etiquette. This is also seen in more senior members of the team ...
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Most effective way to do daily standup meeting when a few people are remote
I am a software developer in a small team of seven. We are not an Agile (with a big 'A') team but are experimenting with some aspects of agile. One of these is the daily "standup" meeting. The ...
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How can I be productive at unproductive meetings?
I work for a manager that is very fond of meetings. The problem is, however, that more than half of these meetings are both unnecessary and wasteful.
For example, we have a regularly scheduled ...
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How can I politely leave meetings I can't contribute to or learn from?
At my job we have fairly frequent meetings with either ill-defined agendas, or agendas that are a long list of subjects with no central theme - basically "the team should meet to talk about anything ...
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Is there anything wrong with asking about job security?
Okay, so my company has recently had a bit of a "shake-up"/downsize. Many people have been made redundant due to quiet sales this past few months.
My role isn't "key" in the business' operation (my ...
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When is it appropriate to work during a meeting?
When in a meeting, there are often little things that come up in the meeting that could just be done during the meeting, instead of recording actions, doing it after and the reporting back at the next ...
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Manager who insists on too many calls/meetings [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the appropriate way to deal with “meeting overload?”
My colleague is placed with a problem with reporting manager.
The manager wants to spend too ...
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What can I do when the answer to every question is “call a meeting”?
Background - I'm the technical lead on a software project. I came up from software engineering and I am responsible for technical interaction with the customer, other vendors, the software product ...
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Dealing with critics in group situations
What should I do when I am facilitating a discussion and someone is deliberately attempting to sabotage the discussion to promote an external agenda?
There are a few way I have considered dealing ...
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How can I encourage our team to have shorter meetings?
We have status meetings every day, consisting of 8 - 10 people. These are scheduled to last 20 minutes and be stand-up meetings. Frequently they last 30 or even 40 minutes and the discussion goes all ...
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How can I remain productive in meetings? [closed]
I often have meetings during which I'm only relevant at one time or another. Usually I bring a notepad and doodle or just zone out.
Instead, I'd like to be more productive, while also remaining at ...
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What is the best method for communication for sites in multiple continents?
I have a project where the team members that I have to deal with are located in different continents than I am. This brings in issues such as time-zone differences, cultural sensitivities, and ...
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My manager always seems too busy to meet with me. How can I improve that?
He's a great guy, but it feels like he's always in meetings or going to conferences or on the phone on long calls. He has told me that he really enjoys those interactions. He and I work somewhat ...
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What are methods for conducting efficient meetings? [closed]
What are some methods of coordinating meaningful effective meetings? Effective is defined as succinct, following the scope, leaving with decisions made, etc.
Of all the meetings we conduct as a ...
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How to capture and manage the minutes of meeting for the team? [closed]
Usually in many meetings some designated person note down various points/minutes and send that note as an email to all participants.
However, overtime i find that emails become too much of a pile of ...
