Managing difficult meetings
Late attendees, disrupters, silent protesters, gossips and bullies. When you are managing difficult meetings learn how to deal with them.
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Don’t let conversation stoppers kill your good ideas
We’ve all had discussions that were going along quite nicely, then suddenly everything stops dead. Like cutting the power while watching a movie. What happened?
Perhaps somebody threw in a verbal grenade: a conversation stopper.
This is a useful weapon when debates go off-topic or emotions are overheating and you want to re-focus everyone’s attention.
Here are 10 of the top conversation stoppers you need to avoid
What do you do if your boss is a fool?
There’s plenty of guidance on the art of being a good leader (most important asset: trustworthiness) and how to create an atmosphere of collaboration at work. What is less frequently discussed is, unfortunately, surprisingly common: your boss is a fool. How is it that someone who has few people skills, can’t make decisions, is a …