Of all the meetings I attend, this one hurts. It always crops up near the end of a meeting where you think you have knocked it out of the park and then someone says – can you stay on the call so we can talk on this further. I don’t mind the questions, I don’t mind the discussion. What I mind is that I didn’t do enough to make the meeting feel comfortable for them…
If you want your online meeting to succeed you are going to have to commit to taking the following steps on an ongoing basis; Start on time.Come Prepared.Know is expected of you.Understand what the goal of the meeting is for.Validate your connectivity. And this is only if you are an attendee on the call – the list for a presenter is all this and more. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up…
Harder in today’s context then it was ever before. The majority of people are working remotely and can be anywhere and everywhere while taking calls. We all have something to say when we jump on a call, all have something we need to get out and all want to be heard. But now more than ever, it’s important to keep the focus on what matters most, staying on point, getting things done and ensuring that…
Before you get to the next meeting, learn about what it is about. Take 5 minutes and think about what is being asked of you. What questions will you ask? What questions will be asked to you? What materials would prove useful to bring? What will you be required to do? How will you present yourself? The goal of any meeting is to accomplish a particular objective and not to have the meeting. The need…
When building software on a new platform there is only one thing you need to understand. The Platform. This goes for writing requirements. This goes for doing trials. This goes for testing. This goes for selling it. This goes for marketing it. This goes for running performance tests. This goes for deploying it. This goes for building software on it. If you don’t understand the platform, if you can’t communicate the platform, if don’t know…