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09-25-2016, 01:40 AM
3 big reasons you never get anything worthwhile out of meetings
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Call it a product of busy schedules, increased tech connectivity, or fried attention spans, but for whatever reason, when you gather a group together for a meeting, almost everyone has a hard time ditching distractions and sticking to the task at hand. In fact, 47% of employees cite distracted co-workers as the biggest hurdle to having productive meetings (https://highfive.com/resources/ebooks/workplace-culture-and-communication-report-2015/).
If you take your job seriously, you’re probably already doing your best to demonstrate engagement: actively listening, chiming in when appropriate, and keeping your phone off the table. But even when good meeting etiquette (https://www.themuse.com/advice/3-common-habits-that-make-you-look-pretty-unprofessional-in-meetings) is at the top of your mind, it’s easy to slip into bad habits. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/24/3-big-reasons-you-never-get-anything-worthwhile-out-of-meetings/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Call it a product of busy schedules, increased tech connectivity, or fried attention spans, but for whatever reason, when you gather a group together for a meeting, almost everyone has a hard time ditching distractions and sticking to the task at hand. In fact, 47% of employees cite distracted co-workers as the biggest hurdle to having productive meetings (https://highfive.com/resources/ebooks/workplace-culture-and-communication-report-2015/).
If you take your job seriously, you’re probably already doing your best to demonstrate engagement: actively listening, chiming in when appropriate, and keeping your phone off the table. But even when good meeting etiquette (https://www.themuse.com/advice/3-common-habits-that-make-you-look-pretty-unprofessional-in-meetings) is at the top of your mind, it’s easy to slip into bad habits. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/24/3-big-reasons-you-never-get-anything-worthwhile-out-of-meetings/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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