Get Employees to Contribute
Tired of meetings where no one contributes? Schedule a mandatory meeting and tell team members their “admission ticket” will be an index card with an original idea written on it. Collect the tickets at the door, and start the meeting by reading every member’s idea.
How to Handle Disrupters
You’ve just been appointed facilitator for the next meeting, but you know that if it’s to be successful, you’ll have to rein in a few troublemakers. Here are descriptions of four particularly difficult types of meeting disrupters and how to handle them. The repeaters.These people bring up the same issues and points over and over […]
Use Time Wisely
Stop wasting time reading unwanted email messages. Follow the example of one busy team leader. He decided to respond to every email for a week with a note on its appropriateness. He responded with one of three comments: 1. Keep sending this sort of critical information. 2. Send this to a responsible person on my team, […]
Innovation and the Art of Shaving
I was in Grand Rapids, Michigan, recently and “discovered” The Art of Shaving. It’s an upscale mall store that is dedicated to one thing and one thing only…the perfect shave for men. As it turns out, I could have discovered it in any one of dozens of malls nationwide. The company has been around since […]
Walmart & Innovation
I took a quick, very unscientific survey recently. It was a one question survey: When you think of Walmart, do you think of innovation? 100% of the answers were the same… “no”. Walmart is just a big ol’ store with lots of stuff at low prices. No innovation, right? Think again.
