No one enjoys conflict in the workplace, least of all the managers who have to deal with it. Naturally, the best way to clean up the mess is through conflict prevention. As the saying goes “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” and prevention is the...
Meetings Posts
28 One-on-One Meeting Questions to Improve Communication in the Workplace
When successful, one-on-one meetings contribute to development opportunities for employees, building trust, and fostering important communication. So, we came up with “The List” of great one-on-one meeting questions. We have something for every situation. Some are...
The One-on-One Meeting: What Every Manager Should Know
Did you know that the top tech teams utilize one-on-one meetings? The senior manager of software development at Rackspace regularly blocks off time to sit down with each member of his team and see how things are going. So do managers at Dropbox, LinkedIn, and...
Free Meeting Calculator: How Much Time Do You Waste? Find Out…
At Jell, we’re focused on reducing the need for unnecessary meetings while making fewer meetings more successful. We have regular one-on-ones and daily standups, but we don’t waste more time in meetings than needed. We talked about the science of productive meetings...
The Science of Productive Meetings: Quality Over Quantity
The saying “quality over quantity” holds in many facets of life—so why not use this mindset to plan productive meetings? If you read our post on the psychology of routine meetings, you know the difference between meetings that make teams more efficient and ones that...
Psychology of Routine Meetings: Understanding the Cause and Cure
If you view weekly status updates or daily check-ins as a necessary cost of managing a team, this is the post for you. If you regularly multitask or tune out during meetings, this post is for you, too. And if you attend or schedule routine meetings because you’re...
Slack’s Killing Email Excess. Are Mindless Meetings Next?
For generations, employees have endured a peculiar workplace tradition. They spend hours a day deleting, filing, forwarding and searching a form of communication called email. Endless chains are created as people seek to solve problems, get answers, showcase...
An Abridged History of Scrum Standups and Agile Project Management
Have you ever wondered where daily scrum standups started? Or why yours are starting to feel more like mindless meetings than productivity-boosters? In this post you’ll get a short history of the daily standup trend—and how to make standups more effective for your...
Meeting Cost: The Financial Value of Productive Meetings
Do you want to make your team more efficient and run productive meetings? Are you looking for easy ways to generate more revenue for your business? Have you evaluated your team meeting cost yet? Making the best of the time people spend in meetings is one of the most...
The Secret to Running Successful Meetings
Are you worried that your meetings suck? Are you trying to cut back on the amount of time your team spends conversing when they could be producing? Do you want to do better at running successful meetings? Meetings have their place and can be a cornerstone of...