Meetings

(And 7 Sneaky Coaching Questions That Do The Same)

👉 at least— that’s what your manager is thinking.

If Your Team Spends More Than 1/3 of the Week in Meetings, You Have a Problem.

On finding a hiding spot, owning your meetings, and trying not to burn your energy stash.

Run Meetings People Don’t Secretly Hate

How to avoid getting your design ideas rejected before the meeting starts.

And the lessons that 30 years of meetings in corporate and military life taught me

I was in a design review meeting last week when I noticed something that made me completely rethink what “senior” actually means.

Sneaky Coaching Questions

Urgent Sneaky Coaching Questions

I remember working at a startup where every day began with meetings. Planning on Monday, follow-ups on Tuesday, status on Wednesday…

How to start conversations about your salary, and how to prepare so you come out smiling? Katie Cadwell talks about the tricky business of pay negotiations in week’s Creative Career Conundrums.

Super Short New Manager Hacks

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I learned last year that many people are interested in actively using icebreakers to kickstart meetings. I couldn’t believe the positive…

How many of you have calendars that are blocked on blocks of unavailability where every moment from 8 am to 5 pm is blocked with some…

New Manager Hacks

Navigate the labyrinth of stakeholder meetings with ease and clarity using Doodle. Plan, prepare, and have a great get-together.

Google’s Meghan Schofield on honing your design communication skills

Discover the importance of effective communication and collaboration among project stakeholders in order to ensure efficient project management.

Skip-level meetings are a goldmine for employee feedback. Here are four skip-level meeting questions to add to your agenda.

Done poorly, a skip level meeting can be a major source of resentment and chaos. This guide will help you get it right.

Skip-level meetings for employees help establish stronger rapport and can uncover concerns, obstacles new insights and more.

Discover the untapped potential of skip-level meetings. Unveil strategies, benefits, and best practices for managers and employees to foster transparency and growth.

A skip-level meeting is between an employee and their manager's manager, without the middle manager in attendance. Here’s how to plan your meeting:

Why you need them and how to have good ones

The stakeholders of an organization have a vested interest in all of the business’s decisions.  When making updates to primary assets, such as an organization’s website, the involvement of stakeholders can make or break your project.  In order to best align the feedback of these key members, stakeholder meetings are essential.  Let’s take a comprehensive …

A common piece of advice for improving meetings or your company’s approach to them is that “all meetings should have an agenda.”

Your team’s favorite waste of time could actually be useful — imagine that!

A few humorous moments and how do you handle them