How to Conduct Your Meetings

Scenario: "Dude, we gotta buy expensive conference room furniture. We'll all be more serious. We'll make more dough. Yay!" It's Friday-fun-day, and for a good portion of you: It's Meetings Day! Yay! Unfortunately, most meetings serve as big time-wasters. They remove you from what you should really be doing: Doing.

How to Make Meetings Super Productive

To quicken up your meetings and make your fabulous day more productive -- and also head out to your fabulous weekend faster, Management Professor and Researcher Allen Bluedorn recommends: Stand up! He found through his research:

Meetings at which all participants stay on their feet are a third shorter than sit-down conferences--and that the decisions made in them are just as sound.

So as you're heading out for your fabulous weekend, keep this template handy in your conference room:

"Stand yo fabulous boo-tays up!"

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