Virtual presentation tips can really make you look good. But if you don’t pay attention to the technicalities, it can make you look bad.
A point of order is a tool, which is used to draw attention to a breach in rules, an irregularity in procedure, the irrelevance or continued repetition of a speaker or the breaching of established practices or contradiction of a previous decision.
En bloc simply means “as a whole”. It’s a very effective technique to deal with a range of items (which have disagreement) as one motion or one decision.
Meeting minutes are not just a record. They are a management tool. They contain decisions that people need to act on, actions that are assigned to specific individuals with specific timeframes, and information that participants need to take forward into their other work. It should be a policy to send the minutes out within 48 hours
Here’s a confession: most meeting minutes are written the wrong way. Not because the minute-taker is incompetent — quite the contrary, many are remarkably capable people who work incredibly hard. But they’re using the wrong system for modern minutes.
“To lie on the table” is a formal procedural motion.
The purpose of the motion is to defer further consideration of the matter currently before the meeting, without setting a specific time for when it will be revisited.
There’s a principle I come back to regularly in my work with speakers: the audience forms its first impression of you before you utter a single word. The moment you walk into the room – or in a virtual setting, the moment your image appears on screen – you are communicating. So make “what should you wear ” a conscious decision.
VOMIT stands for Verbal Outpouring of Material In Total. The name describes the process precisely: you don’t think, you don’t edit, you don’t filter — you simply pour everything you know about your topic into a voice recording or a document, as fast as it comes, without stopping to judge any of it.
Every organisation has them. Deadwood. The people who were once genuine assets but have quietly become liabilities. The committee member who turned up reliably for years and now attends erratically and contributes little. The staff member whose performance was once the benchmark and is now a daily management challenge. The board director who built their reputation in a different era and hasn’t kept pace with where the organisation needs to go.
I’ve come across two businesses recently that made me stop and think. I’m not going to name them – that’s not the point. The point is the pattern. And it’s a pattern I see more often than I’d like. They lose customer focus.
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Which makes Thing one of the most instructive teachers of non-verbal communication I’ve come across in recent pop culture.
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A senior executive sat across from me recently – impressive career, multiple board roles, significant responsibility – and made a remark I haven’t stopped thinking about.
“Some people,” she said quietly, “justify their salary by having meetings.”
It was said without malice. She wasn’t ranting. She was making an observation she’d reached after years of watching organisational behaviour from the inside. And the more I’ve thought about it, the more I believe she’s identified something genuinely important. Meetings are sometimes just part of the job.
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