30 Career Management Tips Manage Your Meetings

30 Career Management Tips: Manage your meetings This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules -- . The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. Top 10 Posts on Categories This month, I’m providing a career management tip-a-day (along with other posts) to help you trigger your own career management activities. Today’s tip: Manage your meetings. If e-mail is the best and worst personal productivity tool out there, then meetings rank right up there on people’s lists of the least productive activities we do in our careers. There’s numerous reasons why meetings are such a poor use of people’s time. And, you know as well as I do that poor meetings are not going away simply because I write about them on a career management blog. The issue is, faced with unproductive meetings, how we can manage them as successfully as we can? Meetings are necessary, we want them to help our personal brand, and managing our career means we need to be successful in our meetings. If it is your responsibility to be the leader in a meeting, here are five suggestions for making a successful meeting: Many of us don’t lead many meetings, but we do attend them. In this case, all you can control is what you do before, during and after the meeting. Here’s five tips for your meeting attendance as a cubicle warrior: Books have been written on how to set up meetings, how to make them more productive, and how to get results from meetings. Yet, Corporate Earth consistently fails the productive meeting test. How about you? Really good advice, so important to tie down every step to make sure that you move forward without wasting time. Good tips for managing meetings!   Reply […] 30 Career Management Tips: Manage your meetings […] Reply I wrote an article on meetings for my article website called ‘Managing Meetings â€" This Is How You Fail At Them’. In summary: Become the manager who is a failure at managing meetings or do the opposite and become the expert… 1. Schedule your meetings at bad times 2. Make sure your meetings all start late and run overtime 3. Maintain a consistent lack of focus on what topics will be covered 4. Ensure there is a poor level of rapport in the group 5. Don’t arrive at a decision 6. Choose a poor location and environment for your meetings 7. Schedule meetings to go over routine topics 8. Don’t talk to your group, or make your meetings interactive 9. Never asking for feedback from participants, or allowing others to present ideas or get involved There you have it! Just follow those nine simple tips, and you’re guaranteed to instil fear, loathing and boredom into even the most intrepid of meeting participants! Andrew Reply @GreatManagement â€" OUCH! How many of us have been guilty of these missteps in meetings? Reply This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules â€" . The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. policies The content on this website is my opinion and will probably not reflect the views of my various employers. Apple, the Apple logo, iPad, Apple Watch and iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. I’m a big fan.