A well run sales meeting can have an incredible impact on the confidence and development of your team. Conversely, badly run meetings will under-mine your leadership and retard growth.
We have compiled advice and best practices from the United States and Great Britain to ensure you gain the widest possible perspective.
Not all of the content was originally written for the sales industry. But, the experiences, examples and suggestions provide a great insight into running productive sales-team meetings.
We would also recommend you visit our "brain exercise" page because it is updated every day with tools, ideas, quizes and talking points that add fun and focus to any meeting.
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Holding Effective Meetings: Nine Simple Rules
Most people in business complain that there are just too many meetings. That may be true, but business meetings are a fact of life, and the best we can do is learn to make them worth the time and effort they require. - MORE
Five Reasons To Make Meetings More Fun
The average person spends more time in meetings than they’d like to. The average manager spends the majority of their workday in meetings. Given these facts, it isn’t surprising that you can read lots of books, articles and tips about running and managing meetings more effectively. Seldom will you read that you should make your meetings more fun. - MORE
The Good And The Bad Of Virtual Meetings
In today's "Global" environment more and more organizations are turning to virtual meetings to help people connect and more effectively get things done. - MORE
The Secrets To Managing Ineffective Meetings - 9 Proven Tips Which Make You Fail
There are meetings with clients, meetings with employees and meetings with peers or associates. Almost everyone has suffered through too many meetings that take up too much time and accomplish too little. - MORE
Bad News About Effective Meetings
Just when you thought the world made sense, here's bad news:
Effective meetings have major problems.
Here they are: - MORE
How To Encourage Ideas From Your Team At Meetings
You’re at a meeting with key staff. You want some new ideas to address the topic. Looking around at this group of creative, ambitious, bright people, you say, “Let’s get some fresh ideas on this. Who’s got something?” - MORE
Effective Meetings: Why Most Meetings are a Waste of Time
Whether your company holds one meeting a week or dozens of meetings a day it is essential that this time is used efficiently and effectively. Most meetings are less effective than they could be not because they are poorly managed, but because meeting managers spend all of their time focusing on the one or two hours when people will be gathered around the conference table or video screen. Smart meeting managers know that it is the actions you take during the three days immediately before the meeting which are much more important than the meeting itself. - MORE
Lead your team by truly leading your team meetings
It is possible to influence your employees simply by how you conduct a sales meeting - this subtle method of coaching is to leadership what subliminal messages are to advertising and – if done correctly – as effective. - MORE
Holding Effective Meetings Can Be Easier than You Think!
Then, once the meeting finally gets off the ground, the real pandemonium starts. For instance:
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You may hear some people yak incessantly on the sidelines, or one or two folks might jump on a soapbox and dominate the discussion.
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The meeting topics can bounce back and forth so many times that no one can keep track of what's actually being discussed.
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If a decision results, no one knows whether it was ever recorded or even whether anyone agreed to it.
To counteract these frustrating problems, this article reveals four techniques for running great meetings and following up afterward. - MORE
Leadership Secrets for Great Meetings
Ineffective and poorly- run meetings serve as one of the top talent and time wasters. Develop the skill to run a tight, highly-focused meeting with just the right number and kind of people in attendance and your stature as a leader rises. - MORE
6 Tips on How to Hold Short Staff Meetings
Here's how to hold a short, effective staff meetings. - MORE
Meetings, Meetings, Meetings : Facilitation Effective Time Use, Building Consensus
Don’t you just love meetings? Everyone comes, some talk, some take notes, everyone leaves…and then? What happened? Most of just consider meetings a necessary evil - a major waste of time! Meetings are also forum for power. Someone wins, someone loses. Sometime, we don’t even know WHY we are meeting! There IS a better way! - MORE
How to Make Your Meetings More Productive
In most organizations, meetings are often the biggest time-wasters. With a bit of planning, it’s possible to both shorten the time spent in meetings and to make that time more productive. Here’s how. - MORE
11 Ways To Create Successful Corporate Meetings And Retreats
What’s the cost to put together a strategic corporate meeting or retreat? Regardless of the specifics—hotel expenses, payroll, lost opportunities, lost management time planning the agenda, the cost of guest speakers, food, and supplies—you expect the returns to far outweigh the $3000 or $150,000 bill. - MORE
How To Conduct Meetings Like A Top Performer
Everyone participates in meetings or is the host of a meeting. Many are productive and others are a complete waste of time. We have developed a list of techniques for planning and holding effective meetings that will turn you into a top performer in your profession and organization. - MORE
7 Ways to Protect Your Boss From Bad Meetings
Most bosses spend too much of their time in meetings. This happens because executives respond to problems by calling meetings to fix them. And when the meetings fail to produce results, they call more meetings. In some companies, people have even called meetings to figure out why their meetings didn’t work. - MORE
