Faster Together

ACCELERATOR #11

Meeting Effectively

Meetings are probably our least-loved form of communication, and we’ve all cursed their necessity from time to time. It sometimes seems that between all the meetings and pre-meeting meetings, we don’t have time to work. Fortunately, we no longer have to stick to the old formats of face-to-face sit-down meetings, and even when we do, there are certain protocols that can yield excellent results in much less time than in meetings of the past.

Technology has long afforded us the option of teleconferences, where multiple people dial in to the meeting from across the world. Given the quality of our technologies and the speed of light, there’s rarely a noticeable time lag. Ditto for videoconferences, if you feel the ...