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Who is Your Primary Customer?
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. Author, The Secrets of Facilitation and The Secrets to Masterful Meetings Do you ...
Why Are You Better? Build Preference Value To Beat The Competition
By Robert A. Potter What is your Preference Value? That is, what makes you unique and better than your competition? Can you quickly ...
Are Your Meetings Masterful?
Take This Quiz to Find Out By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. Those short quizzes you find in magazines are almost always ...
Getting Your Meetings Started on Time
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. It’s 9:12. The meeting was supposed to start twelve minutes ago. As the project manager, you ...
Let’s NOT Meet! Strategies for Eliminating Meetings
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. Adapted from The Secrets to Masterful Meetings Meetings take time and tie up resources. Therefore, if ...
Let’s NOT Meet! Tips for Avoiding Unnecessary Meetings
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. Have you ever sat through a meeting and wondered, “Why are we having this meeting? What ...
Running Virtual Meetings
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. In today’s business world, many meetings take place over telephone lines, through the Internet, using video-conferencing ...
The 20 Roles of a Masterful Meeting Leader
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. Masterful Meeting is the term we use at Leadership Strategies to refer to a vision ...
The Case for Masterful Meetings
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. Let me ask you three questions. 1. How much of your time each week is wasted ...
Tips for Running Technical Meetings
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. In a regular business meeting, it can be difficult enough just managing the different personal agendas ...
Transforming Your Meetings Culture: Establish Meeting Rights!
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. “That was an awful meeting. What a waste of my time!” How often have you had ...
Transform Your Meetings Culture: The Secrets to Masterful Meetings
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