kelstarrising;69777 said:
kelstarrising;69796 said:Can you try it again please and see if it works for you now?
12hourhalfday;69802 said:Thank you for doing this Kelly! I have read the recommendations on meetings before but it took the video to get the concept of the natural planning model during the meeting to click. I can really understand how just redefining or re clarifying the purpose of the meeting can realign the meeting on the path towards productivity.
I KNOW!!! Thursday is my only conference call free day! The others days I have at least three 1 to 2 hour calls. One of those gets canceled and I am like wooohoooo!Barb;69815 said:Even WORSE than face-to-face meetings for many people these days are long conference calls. Not only are the majority of people checking email and doing other things, without someone getting NA's and responsibilities down, they are an even worse time waster.
12hourhalfday;69818 said:I KNOW!!! Thursday is my only conference call free day! The others days I have at least three 1 to 2 hour calls. One of those gets canceled and I am like wooohoooo!
we have the IM function but the only real thing we use it for is to check to see if someone is at their desk so we can call:twisted:Barb;69821 said:My husband is on conference calls ALL DAY EVERY DAY. I might also add, too, that they are often required on weekends. If the very, very senior management schedules a call with other very senior people, the calls are often at 2 a.m. or 3 a.m. Very hardworking people, but I cannot even imagine how effective one could be in the long run.
Oh, and here's another observation I wonder if others face: People have stopped responding to emails so everyone IM's each other all day. So a busy manager gets a couple of hundred emails a day AND probably close to that in IMs.
Anyone else have to deal with that?
12hourhalfday;69822 said:we have the IM function but the only real thing we use it for is to check to see if someone is at their desk so we can call:twisted:
Flyer;69828 said:What's IM?
Flyer;69835 said:Of course! I´ve had that possiblity on my work computer only for about six weeks now, but I have heard that people in bigcompanyland actually work with it... I knew this is a differnt world!
In our company it´s used only to agree on when to go out and have a beer or possibly to send a few words of encouragement to a colleague who is in the middle of a particularly frustrating phone call that you happen to overhear in the open office.
Flyer;69838 said:Not really, but a joke or two is fine. Using IM for discussing who goes to the municipal farmer's market today to get some fruit for a snack for the team, too.
Today I was experimenting on how to invite people to an IM meeting to be more efficient in deciding what would be the best day for that beer. Now, I don´t know if that´s an improvement in efficiency compared to e-mails going back and forth, or a terrible rabbit trail that may destroy my efforts on learning GTD...
12hourhalfday;69840 said:hahaha! Anything that has to do with beer is an improvement on everything!