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Element #3: Decide which meeting format will work best

How many times do you participate in a meeting and think, that could have been a phone call or I really wish we could have met in person? One of the key elements to conducting effective meetings is to figure out the type of meeting needed to accomplish your purpose and engage the attendees most […]

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Element #2: Determine who needs to attend the meeting

Your meeting purpose provides clarity on your meeting attendees. Even though you may want to invite everyone to every meeting, this may not help you accomplish your meeting purpose and may not be the best investment of time from your coalition members. Think carefully about who needs to be involved in order to accomplish the

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Element #1: Be clear about your meeting purpose

In these days of back-to-back zoom meetings, we must take the time to be really clear about our meeting purpose before we decide to host a meeting. Can it be an email or a short recorded video? Or do we need to have a discussion about something that can only happen in a meeting format?

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Every “yes” is 1000 “yes’s”

Although I have heard the expression from Jeff Walker, Every yes must be defended by a thousand no’s or Warren Buffet’s, The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything, I realized last week that in many ways every yes is actually “1000” yes’s.  If

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Create an ideal week

It often takes a while for us to get to the point of “overwhelm” so it makes sense that it will take some time to escape the overwhelm.  Our next practical action is proactively creating your own  “ideal week” (thank you again, Michael Hyatt and Company!) This action creates boundaries and margin to guide your

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Prioritize “desire zone” activities

When was the last time you reviewed your weekly activities? Are you doing things you enjoy doing? Are you doing things you are good at doing?  Or are you spending most of your time focused on things that you either don’t enjoy, aren’t good at doing – or both?!  If we are going to escape

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