Communication – Personal Development – Business

Please join me in sharing the reason we celebrate this special day in May. Memorial Day was officially proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in his General Order No. 11 , and was first observed on 30 May 1868, when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. The first state to officially recognize the holiday was New York in 1873.

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by Marsha Petrie Sue, MBA, CSP

A major business publication estimates that more than 11 million meetings are held every business day. We all attend meetings that are boring and a waste of time.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

—Thomas Sowell, American economist

Reviewing the painful aspects of poorly planned meetings solves nothing. Understanding what makes successful meetings is time well spent.

8. Ask for Q&A before the meeting closes, with action items. You want people to walk away with what they need to do instead of the answer to the last question.

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by Marsha Petrie Sue, MBA, CSP

Death by Meeting:

A major business publication estimates that more than 11 million meetings are held every business day. We all attend meetings that are boring and a waste of time and money.

A committee of three often gets more done if two don’t show up.

—Herbert V. Prochnow

Reviewing the painful aspects of poorly planned meetings solves nothing. Understanding what makes successful meetings is time well spent.

Is your two-hour meeting worth $576?

1. Add together the per-hour salaries or hourly pay of all the people who attended a meeting.

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