by Christi Barrett | Meetings
I saw a post today about how to drastically cut meeting time by sending out relevant materials in advance and proceeding right to discussion. Margaret Heffeman writes in her blog at cbsnews.com that assuming people do their homework and proceeding right to discussion...
by Christi Barrett | Change, Coaching, Leadership
There are mentors, and then there are people who step up in a more intentional way to make a profound, lasting impact on our lives. Lou is one of those people for me. I was a 22-year old graduate student working full-time in student services. I was green (not in an...
by Christi Barrett | Meetings
People hate meetings. Or at least they feel strongly enough about them to create a seemingly-endless list of negative quotes about meetings. Here are more of our favorites, this time with a “committee” focus. “To kill time, a committee meeting is the...
