Podcast appearances and mentions of elise keith

Join remote work expert Laurel Farrer for an insider's guide to transforming outdated employee handbooks into modern operational documentation. Learn how established companies can build living knowledge systems that work for everyone - from the warehouse floor to the C-suite. Perfect for leaders looking to modernize their documentation culture and empower teams to work effectively from anywhere.If you're ready to move beyond dusty policy binders but unsure where to start, this interview is your roadmap. Laurel shares practical steps, common pitfalls to avoid, and insights on how documentation can transform your company culture.Episode ResourcesRelated articlesYouTubeTo learn more about and connect with Laurel Farrer, visit her website at:distributeconsulting.comTo learn more about this podcat, visit:Labs.newrulesforwork.com

How can we make meetings more effective? How can we keep people engaged and interested? Whether it's in person or on Zoom, here are a few techniques you can use to make your gatherings more meaningful, productive, and memorable.Get practical tools and actionable insights to actually make meetings matter, as well as knowing when NOT to have a meeting. Join Matt Abrahams in a dynamic conversation with Elise Keith, an expert on effective meetings and communication. Elise explains the three main categories of meetings, and shares practical strategies for engaging participants, handling common meeting issues and maximizing productivity through techniques like parallel processing as well as other tools.Be sure to also listen to Part 1 of our meeting mini-series.Connect:Episode Transcripts >>> Think Fast Talk Smart WebsiteNewsletter Signup + English Language Learning >>> FasterSmarter.ioThink Fast Talk Smart >>> LinkedIn Page & InstagramMatt Abrahams >>> LinkedInStanford GSB >>> LinkedIn & TwitterChapters:(00:00) IntroductionPart two of the making meetings meaningful series, with guest Elise Keith(02:01) Why & How to Have MeetingsThe power of meetings for focusing attention and how to know when to conduct them virtually or in person. (03:56) Meeting CategoriesElise breaks down the three major categories of meetings: Cadence, Catalyst, and Learn & Influence.(05:49) Purpose and OutcomeThe two things to know before scheduling a meeting: the purpose and outcomes - and how to communicate those practically(10:00) Knowing When Not to MeetWhen a meeting may not be the most effective way to achieve goals; ensuring respect for participants' time.(11:45) The Art of FacilitationPractical tips for engaging participants, and setting expectations for active participation. (15:59) Tools for Creating Equity and & CooperationThink-Pair-Share, or 1-2-All, and harnessing silence to encourage equal participation and leveling of the meeting.(17:19) Maximizing Meeting Productivity Parallel processing for dividing work efficiently while keeping the team united. Plus, emphasizing achieving results in business meetings.(19:01) Meeting Best PracticesA lightning-round of best practices for addressing common meeting challenges.(21:20) Final QuestionsA communicator most admired by Elise, as well as her three ingredients for successful communication(23:04) ConclusionSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Meetings are a lot more complicated than meets the eye. Elise Keith, a world-class expert in meetings, gives some insight into how to run really effective meetings. Subscribe to Managing Remote Teams podcast on Soundwise

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In May 2022, an academic research paper titled “Virtual communication curbs creative idea generation” was published in Nature (one of the most prestigious scientific publishers). They tested how the transition from in-person to online interaction affected innovation (measured by collective idea generation) and concluded that video calls were bad for brainstorming.The media derived: “Zoom is a creativity killer.”But, as (online) facilitators, we have first-hand experience with remote teams' creativity and effective collaboration. But, we haven't had hard evidence proving the study wrong.My guests on today's bonus episode, Elise Keith (CEO of Lucid Meetings, Author and Meeting Innovator) and Dave Mastronardi (CEO of the Gamestorming Group) have the ambition to test the hypothesis that online work killed creativity through a global mega experiment. As they kick off the project with a Symposium, Elise and Dave joined me to share their vision, drivers and open questions.Listen to this episode to find out about:The definition of creativity and how to measure itHow the project came to beThe bigger vision behind the project: How online collaboration can tackle global challengesHow you can get involved in the experimentDon't miss the New Rules for Work Experiment and SymposiumVisit the New Rules for Work WebsiteAnd, don't miss the next episode: subscribe to the show with your favourite podcast player.LinksWatch the video recording of this episode on YouTube.Read the Article published in ‘Nature'Read about the studyWatch the Youtube video: Why video calls are bad for brainstormingConnect to Elise and Dave:Connect to Elise on LinkedInConnect to Dave on LinkedInSupport the showCheck out the podcast map to see the overview of all podcast episodes: https://workshops.work/podcast-map

Co-hosts Tricia and John debrief a podcast with Elise Keith to discuss the insights and  techniques that she has about the world of designing better ways of gathering and interacting, and the components necessary for a high performing meeting operating system.

A study came out that said that in-person meetings had more creativity than remote meetings, but is that really accurate? Elise Keith from Lucid Meetings joins Wayne Turmel to discuss that study, how to collaborate effectively on remote meetings, and how meetings have changed since the pandemic started.  Additional Resources Virtual communication curbs creative idea generation study Connect with Elise Keith on LinkedIn Lucid Meetings Learn more about Wayne Turmel Email Wayne Turmel Purchase a copy of The Long-Distance Leader Purchase a copy of The Long-Distance Teammate The Kevin Eikenberry Group

In this episode, John and Tricia talk with guest, Elise Keith to explore the MOS (Meeting Operating System). They discuss insights and techniques about the world of designing better ways of gathering and interacting.Download the model and the episode transcript here.Resourceshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/elisekeith/https://www.lucidmeetings.com/https://newrulesforwork.com/https://hbr.org/2022/10/meeting-overload-is-a-fixable-problem

Games come naturally to human beings. Playing a game is a way of exploring the world, a form of structured play, a natural learning activity that's deeply tied to growth. Gamestorming CEO Dave Mastronardi and Elise Keith the CEO of Lucid Meetings team up with me for a duet of exploration into why online, hybrid or even the old-fashioned office meetups can be a source of creativity, despite a recent research study suggesting that to be creative, you need to meet in person. Listen in, then get involved in their new research study here: https://newrulesforwork.com/ Find out more about Gamestorming here: https://gamestorming.com/ Are you looking for speakers with a fresh voice for your next workshop or conference? Check out https://recommended.anotherdoor.co.uk Love this podcast? Give us a five star review or rating on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your Podcasts, it really helps us make more great content like this episode.  

Business meetings are, arguably, a necessary part of any organisation where people work collectively to accomplish a goal. But badly managed, meetings can be unproductive, boring and feel like a complete waste of time. In a recent survey conducted by governance technology firm eShare, it was found that the average UK employee spends over 10 hours weekly preparing for and attending meetings – approximately 50% of which they consider unnecessary. However, there are theories that technology could improve things. 可以说，商务会议是人们集体工作以实现目标的任何组织的必要组成部分。但是如果管理不善，会议可能会毫无成效、乏味，而且感觉完全是在浪费时间。治理技术公司 eShare 最近进行的一项调查发现，英国员工平均每周花费超过 10 小时准备和参加会议——他们认为其中大约 50% 是不必要的。然而，有理论认为技术可以改善事物。It's "very feasible" for an AI to be able to recognise when one person is hijacking a meeting, or if a circular discussion keeps returning to a single issue, says James Campanini, from videoconferencing company, BlueJeans. "If no new points are made after a while, the AI could suggest to wrap up," says Cynthia Rudin, a computer science professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But AI isn't quite there yet.视频会议公司 BlueJeans 的詹姆斯·坎帕尼尼 (James Campanini) 表示，人工智能能够识别出一个人何时劫持了会议，或者循环讨论是否不断回到一个问题，这是“非常可行的”。麻省理工学院计算机科学教授 Cynthia Rudin 说：“如果一段时间后没有提出新观点，人工智能可能会建议结束。”但人工智能还没有完全成熟。"If AI can do most of the mundane and drudgery work during business meetings, that leaves more space for humans to think about strategy and vision," believes Niki Iliadis at the Big Innovation centre, London, an innovation hub in AI. This seems to be true. The prefecture of Osaka in Japan started using an AI as a minute taker to transcribe and summarise the 450 annual cabinet meetings. It has halved the time needed to produce summaries and cut staff overtime, claims the prefecture.“如果人工智能可以在商务会议期间完成大部分单调乏味的工作，那么就会为人类提供更多思考战略和愿景的空间，”人工智能创新中心伦敦大创新中心的 Niki Iliadis 认为。这似乎是真的。日本大阪府开始使用人工智能作为记录员来转录和总结 450 次年度内阁会议。该县声称，它已将制作摘要所需的时间减少了一半，并削减了员工加班时间。AI can also help with the matter of attendance. If a meeting with irrelevant subject matter is called, or if it's an an inconvenient time, an AI could be used to decide who should attend the meeting and when it should be, says Elise Keith from Lucid Meetings, a US-based meeting management platform.人工智能还可以帮助解决出勤问题。总部位于美国的会议管理平台 Lucid Meetings 的 Elise Keith 说，如果召集了一个主题不相关的会议，或者如果这是一个不方便的时间，人工智能可以用来决定谁应该参加会议以及应该在什么时候参加会议。.Finally, one Stockholm start-up, Mentimeter, allows meeting attendees to give anonymous feedback about a discussion. Using the software, participants can make open-ended responses, submit comments or vote in multiple-choice quizzes. This has "fundamentally changed the dynamics of a presentation," says Austin Broad from financial services firm AFH Wealth Management.最后，斯德哥尔摩的一家初创公司 Mentimeter 允许与会者就讨论提供匿名反馈。使用该软件，参与者可以做出开放式回答、提交评论或在多项选择测验中投票。金融服务公司 AFH Wealth Management 的 Austin Broad 说，这“从根本上改变了演示文稿的动态”。While tools that can create agendas, send meeting invitations, distribute the minutes, and keep track of action items should improve effectiveness, they are still in development. Let's hope that if or when they do arrive, they will meet our expectations.虽然可以创建议程、发送会议邀请、分发会议记录和跟踪行动项目的工具应该会提高效率，但它们仍在开发中。让我们希望，如果或当他们真的到达时，他们会满足我们的期望。词汇表badly managed 管理糟糕的，无序的unproductive 无效的，收益很小的a complete waste of time 完全浪费时间attend 参加hijack 控制，把持（不属于其本人的东西）circular discussion 巡回无效的讨论videoconference 可视会议wrap up 结束，画上句号strategy 策略vision （企业）愿景minute taker 会议记录员transcribe 记录下summarise 总结，概述attendee 参加者presentation 报告，演讲agenda 会议议程meeting invitation 会议邀请the minutes 会议记录action item 行动方案

In dieser Folge verrate ich dir, an welchen Schrauben du drehen kannst, um deine Onlinemeetings effizienter und spannender zu gestalten. Die TeilnehmerInnen sollen sich auf das Meeting freuen und es nicht als lästige Pflicht empfinden, dabei sein zu müssen. Denn wir zapfen in Onlinemeetings die beiden wertvollsten Ressourcen der Teilnehmer innen an: Ihre Zeit und ihre Aufmerksamkeit. Gehen wir respektvoll und bewusst damit um. Wie das geht, erfährst du hier. Hast du ein Unternehmen oder leitest ein Team? Findest du, dass ihr einen Workshop in diese Richtung gut gebrauchen könntet? Dann melde dich bei mir! kontakt@dorismaybach.at Buch: "Where the action is" Elise Keith

In this episode, Jeff Akin magnifies Saru's performance as an acting captain in Season 1 Episode 5, "Star Trek: Discovery" Choose Your Pain.   Due to the Klingons abducting Lorca, it is up to Saru to take over the captainship and lead the whole crew. As Saru takes on the role, he reviews the qualities set up by the computer to use as his leadership model. These qualities are bravery, self-sacrifice, intelligence, tactical brilliance, and compassion. Will Saru succeed? Later, watch out as Jeff talks about a robust feedback model that can transform you and your team in a crisis situation in light of the lessons from Saru.   Listen to the episode and join Jeff as he talks about the lessons we can learn from Saru's example of leadership and more.     Your After-action After Saru   After Jeff reviewed the episode, we found out that Saru failed to follow the qualities of the fleet's most decorated captains. He disrespected a senior medical officer and the brain behind the spore drive in front of the whole bridge. He even pawned his performance as the acting captain on to Burnham instead of owning up to it.  When he reviewed his performance, Saru displayed self-awareness by expressing, "I know what I did." Having self-awareness is known to be one of the facets of emotional intelligence for leaders. However, Saru was not able to show bravery, compassion, or tactical brilliance in his stint as the captain.   For Jeff, there is a valuable insight in this episode of "Discovery" that can help leaders. E.g., learn the qualities of your leader models. By doing this, you discover and do the successful traits of your standout models quantitative to you. Setting up periodic check-ins on your development is also key. If you're pretty recognized in your field, a quarterly check-in is a good tempo. If you're starting, bi-weekly may be the one that will work.    Jeff also cites a powerful performance review model from J. Elise Keith's "Where the Action Is." We use the Action Review Tool after a task and begin with fact-checking followed by observations and learnings. It is then used to determine an immediate improvement plan plus the incredible insights for the after-action.   Listen more about how you can learn from the episode of "Star Trek: Discovery" Choose Your Pain in the Starfleet Leadership Academy Podcast!     About Starfleet Leadership Academy:   Star Trek is full of great examples of leadership. Jeff Akin, a leader with over 20 years of executive management experience in both the public and private sectors, breaks down each episode of Star Trek, from The Original Series to Discovery and beyond, pointing out examples of great leadership, management, lean/six-sigma, communication and more.   If you enjoy Star Trek, or are even a little Trek-curious, and have an appetite for leadership development, this is the podcast for you!   Outline of the episode: ●      [01:05] How Cornwell sees Burnham ●      [04:51] Saru cross-references his skills with Starfleet's most decorated captains ●      [08:38] Stamet refocuses on a knock-out that's on the verge ●      [13:08] Rating Lorca and Saru based on bravery, self-sacrifice, intelligence, tactical brilliance, and compassion ●      [17:05] Lorca and Tyler outsmart the Klingons; Saru displays bravery and compassion ●      [20:47] Saru pawns his poor performance onto Burnham ●      [22:57] Having self-awareness, Saru interjects the computer's performance review of him ●      [27:28] How to learn from Saru's Performance Review ●      [31:08] The Pareto Chart: In the assessment of skills and qualities of standouts ●      [33:28] The Action Review Tool   Resources: Find Where the Action Is, Book by J. Elise Keith: https://www.jeffakin.com/p/reading-list/   Follow the fleet and connect through: Website:          https://jeffakin.com Twitter:            https://twitter.com/SFLApodcast Instagram:       https://www.instagram.com/jefftakin/ Facebook:       https://facebook.com/groups/sflapodcast/ YouTube:        https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCebdT7xtm2237q0f857BBuw Support the Starfleet Leadership Academy Podcast on: https://patreon.com/sfla

“The way that your organization and your team meet is either something that can emerge out of habit and grow organically, which may or may not be a good thing, or it's something that you can design. It...starts by actually looking at what you're doing and having an honest conversation about whether that's working for you.” -Elise Keith Elise Keith is the CEO of Lucid Meetings, a company that leads with innovation to improve the quality of organization's meetings. She understands the reality of taking a detailed look at the structure and underlying processes behind organizations' meetings to identify areas of opportunity for better engagement and exceptional performance. Elise believes successful, everyday meetings are achievable and encourages teams to lead with conversation and tailor-made meeting experiences. According to Elise, the ultimate challenge is for every team member within an organization to initiate the meeting about meetings and watch the benefits of your organization unfold.  In this episode of Control the Room, Elise and I discuss the layers of rules for “the meeting,” in productive organizations, the impact of creating custom meeting systems through Lucid Meetings, the significance of effective decision-making, and the need for intentional conversations about the meetings that take place in your organization. Listen in to hear how Elise reveals the methods behind productive meeting outcomes and the importance of clarity before, during, and after your next meeting, while allowing everyone to ultimately succeed. 

Bad meetings are all too common, but they are merely the product of every bad meeting that has come before them.So, how do we break the cycle of unstructured, imbalanced, aimless meetings and create a structure and process that makes meetings enjoyable and productive?There's nobody better to answer that question than Elise Keith, founder and CEO of Lucid Meetings.Elise joined me in this episode to discuss the essentials of understanding meetings, how we can use them as tools to impact our work for the better, and what we need to do to reclaim their power.So, join us for a conversation that explores how you can start the important design and preparation work of creating a strong meeting culture within any organisation.Find out about:Why good meetings are the result of structure and mandates, not chanceHow to get the basics – like structure and meeting minutes – rightComparing Amazon and Brené Brown's meeting structuresHow online meetings can act as a great equaliserThe most common thing we get wrong about meetings – and how to can avoid itHow the shift to online meetings has democratised and simplified facilitation… and thrown up new complicationsHow options for anonymity in online meetings can help us flatten the roomDon't miss the next show: Subscribe to the show with your favourite podcast player.Click here to download the free 1-page summaryAnd if the idea of NeverDoneBefore 2021, the community of facilitators, caught your attention; click here to explore it in more detail!Questions and Answers[01:04] When did you start calling yourself a facilitator?[04:09] Is the structure of a meeting more important than its facilitation?[06:29] Is there a silver bullet that makes people respect a meeting's timing and structure?[08:43] Is rotating facilitation in a meeting a good idea?[12:14] How do we escape the Catch 22 of having ineffective meetings and the desire to stay up-to-date?[15:01] What is the best way to produce meeting minutes?[16:31] What is your meeting routine in your own company?[19:49] Can a good meeting culture proliferate from one team across an organisation?[21:26] What are the hallmarks of good meeting structure?[23:35] How important are check-ins?[27:08] Can we have good online meetings if we never had good offline ones?[32:21] What is the one thing you think we get wrong with meetings?[36:25] Is there an exercise you would recommend to a team that's rethinking their meeting culture?[40:31] How can we help people see their own blindspots?[43:11] Have we learned anything from online meetings that we can apply to offline ones?[49:22] What is your strategy to help the quieter voices in a meeting speak up and feel heard?[52:03] What is the one thing you would like people to take away from this episode?Links●     Elise's business: Lucid Meetings●     Elise's book: Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization ●     5 things every company should do (article)●     Meeting tools●     Lucid Meetings Events●&n

In this episode Lisa Duerre and Elise Keith keep it real by sharing examples, actionable tips and insight to help leaders at all levels in Tech save time and budget. Listen in as they share insight and actions leaders can do today to increase decision making velocity, performance and sales. Topics range from how to improve the #ROI of your meeting(s), what to do about #meetingfatigue, and how move your meeting attendees from consumer to co-creator. They double click on #communication, #influence, #values, #inclusion, #belonging, #psychologicalsafety, #effectiveleadership, #timemanagement, #meetingdesign, #prioriities, #committment, #distancelearning, #leaderblindspots and #remotework. ----- Hey, leader in tech! Want to get kickass results, build a high-performing team, and be present for the moments that matter? Take your first step at rebootwithlisa.com.

Make sure you spend your time effectively in meetings. Listen to this episode to be sure you're getting the most out of the time you invest in them.

Meetings are a lot more complicated than meets the eye. Elise Keith, a world-class expert in meetings, gives some insight into how to run really effective meetings.

Expert tips on connecting with an audience that isn’t in the room.   As planners have had to cancel face-to-face gatherings of all sizes, digital meetings have become a vital alternative. But for those accustomed to developing in-person events, it’s become clear that the rules for engaging face-to-face attendees don’t necessarily apply in the digital universe. To provide best practices for designing a captivating virtual event, Northstar Meetings Group recently hosted a webcast, “Welcoming the Virtual Attendee,” featuring a pair of presenters experienced in planning digital and hybrid events.   In this episode of Eventful: The Podcast for Meeting Professionals, we’re bringing you highlights from that webcast. You’ll hear from Elise Keith, co-founder and CEO of Lucid Meetings and Meeting School and the author of Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization; and Nancy Settle-Murphy, president of meeting facilitation company Guided Insights and author of Leading Effective Virtual Teams. Together they provide valuable insights about hosting virtual events and how to avoid common mistakes made when transitioning to a digital format. The full version of this webcast, along with additional live and on-demand Northstar webcasts, can be found at northstarmeetingsgroup.com/webcasts.

Elise Keith, author and founder of Lucid Meetings, joins host Todd Nienkerk to offer insights on how to run successful meetings every day.

On this episode of the podcast, I'm joined by J. Elise Keith, co-founder of Lucid Meetings and author of Where The Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization. We dive into an area of our work lives that can have a direct impact on our overall productivity both individually and organizationally. That area is... meetings. This episode is brought to you by LinkedIn Jobs. The perfect hire can have an impact on your business for years to come. So when you need to find that next person to help grow your business, LinkedIn Jobs will match the right talent with your open role... fast. You can pay what you want and get the first $50 off. Just visit http://linkedin.com/timecrafting (linkedin.com/timecrafting) to get fifty dollars off your first job post. Terms and conditions apply. Find the right person for your business today with LinkedIn Jobs.This episode is brought to you by SaneBox. SaneBox is the easiest way to automatically organize your inbox and keep it that way forever. SaneBox sorts your emails for you, keeping ​unimportant email out of your inbox, so you can focus on what matters. See how SaneBox can help you reclaim your time and attention with a free trial. Visit https://sanebox.com/timecrafting (sanebox.com/timecrafting) today to start your free trial and get a $25 credit. This episode is brought to you by the University of California Irvine Division of Continuing Education. Established in 1962, UCI offers education for adult learners in Orange County. But thanks to technology, their courses and certification programs in various fields are now available worldwide and online for just about anyone who's interested. You can get 15% off of one (1) course by visiting https://ce.uci.edu/about/trending/toolkits.aspx?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=paidsocial&ut%20m_campaign=productivityist&utm_term=20WI20SP (http://ce.uci.edu/productivityist) then enter the promo code timecrafting. Make sure you take advantage of this limited time offer as it is only valid until July 31, 2020 at 11:59 pm. (Please note that this discount is for almost all of the certificate programs. The exceptions only include coding boot camps, international programs, teacher credentialing programs, and test prep courses.) This episode is brought to you by Zapier. When you’re running your own business your to-do list is never-ending. You know you could automate many of the tasks you do, but you don’t know-how. That’s where Zapier comes in. And right now through the end of the month, you can try Zapier free by going to our special link. Just visit http://zapier.com/timecrafting (http://zapier.com/timecrafting) and get a 14-day free trial of Zapier - and tell them The Productivityist Podcast sent you! Meetings can be a real productivity killer. But they don't need to be. I was grateful to have the opportunity to talk with Elise about her comprehensive book - which is a "must read" if you're looking to make better meetings happen. We talked about designing meetings that matter, how to break the bias that meetings aren't productive, and much more. Meetings are going to happen, so why not make them happen in a way that works? This discussion is just the thing to help you turn your meetings from interruptions to productivity to instrumental for purposeful productivity. Enjoy! Talking Points This is what Elise has to say to people who are hesitant when going into meetings because of their aversion to them (1:27) We talk about words or phrases you can use instead of the word "meeting" (3:54) What are the 16 different types of meetings and how did they make their way into the book? (6:51) How does someone get started using these different types of meetings without being overwhelmed with such a drastic change in culture? (12:31) Elise shares with me her thoughts on "holacracy" and whether or not she's explored that in conjunction with her work...

You’ve planned a thoughtful agenda, sent materials as pre-work, and done everything in your power to set the meeting up for success. But then...someone takes the conversation off track. Or keeps bringing up old business and wants to rehash a decision. Or won’t stop talking. These disruptive meeting behaviors can make it hard to accomplish even the best planned meeting objectives. Effective meeting leaders are prepared to facilitate through these moments of tension to keep the meeting on track.  The full episode guide includes an overview of five common disruptive behaviors and how to facilitate through them. Get it when you join the Modern Manager community or purchase the full guide atwww.mamieks.com/store.   Get the free mini-guide at www.mamieks.com/miniguides. Subscribe to my newsletter to get episodes, articles and free mini-guides delivered to your inbox.  Learn more about one-on-one coaching at www.mamieks.com/coaching. I’d love to help you implement the learnings and unleash your potential as a rockstar manager. Read the related blog article: Put an End to These Disruptive Meeting Behaviors.  Key Takeaways: Most people aren’t intentionally being disruptive. They’re simply unaware of the impact of their behavior. By making people self-aware or clarifying expectations, many people will begin to self-regulate. Disruptive behavior 1: going off on tangents. This happens because the agenda isn’t clear, they’re particularly excited about a topic, or something is on their mind that is holding their attention.  When the conversation goes off track, acknowledge the new topic and suggest returning to the agenda at hand. Offer to schedule a follow up specifically on the open topic and use a backburner to document off-agenda topics for future discussion. Disruptive behavior 2: hogging the mic. This happens because extraverts talk to think, people struggle with being succinct, and/or time does not feel urgent. When someone is taking up all the air space, offer to speak with them another time in order to ensure you hear from everyone during this meeting. Disruptive behavior 3: naysaying or revisiting old content. This happens when something feels unsettled or the person is emotionally distracted.  When someone is naysaying, help them put their work in perspective of the larger effort. Acknowledge their concern and offer to address it outside of the meeting.  Reinforce that this meeting has a particular agenda or focus. Include a ‘devil’s advocate time’ on the agenda for everyone to share any concerns. Disruptive behavior 4: someone is distracted by their technology. This happens when people shouldn’t be in that meeting, they’re bored or have a lot on their mind. When people are distracted by technology, gently encourage them to put it away inn order to participate. Start by establishing norms for tech use.  If addressing the behavior during the meeting is not effective, talk to the person one-on-one to let them know how their behavior is disruptive to you and/or the team and engage them in finding an appropriate solution. Additional Resources: Episode 10: Effective Meetings with Elise Keith mamie@mamieks.com

Kevin counts down the most downloaded episodes of 2019. As he recounts each episode, he shares his thoughts on why the conversation was valuable and who may find the most value in the discussion. Additional Leadership Resources Related Podcast Episodes: The Making of a Manager with Julie Zhou. Leading on the Football Field and in Your Field with Michael Lombardi. Leading Customer Loyalty with Sandy Rogers. Scaling Leadership with Robert J. Anderson. How to Think Like Amazon with John Rossman. The Connectors Advantage with Michelle Tillis Lederman. Making Meetings Matter with Elise Keith. Brave New Work with Aaron Dignan. Great Leaders Have No Rules with Kevin Kruse. Proving Your Competence with Jack Nasher.

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Elise Keith is the co-founder of online meeting management platform Lucid Meetings. Known as the ‘Meeting Maven,' Elise offers unprecedented expertise that inspires audiences, proving that meetings shouldn't be fewer or shorter—but better and more effective. She is the author of Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization, which contains eye-opening strategies companies can use to structure beneficial meetings, create a healthy workplace culture, and propel overall team momentum. Book: “Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization”Company: Lucid Meetings - www.lucidmeetings.com Website: JEliseKeith.com  

Did you know that almost three-quarters of us find meetings ineffective or unproductive, and they waste more than $37 billion dollars every year? Elise Keith, CEO and co-founder of Lucid Meetings, joins us to share about her expertise and her mission to make it easy for teams to run successful meetings every day, in the business world + in life outside of work. Whether you’re leading a meeting at your child's school or an executive at a Fortune 500 boardroom, Elise is here to share real-life examples + practical methods that will lead to more productive + effective meetings and happier participants. SHOW NOTES: "Every meeting is walking into another room with another group of individuals that aren't the same as you, and hopefully having a moment to connect and create something great." Get curious: Productive meetings happen when individuals can treat each other with respect, let their voices be heard and their opinions valued without judgment. Meetings aren't just transactional. It's about being successful with people. "Bad" meetings are always a reflection of something deeper going on in the culture.  Many leaders are leading bad meetings because that's what's always been done. Doing a job their not trained to do: Leaders are spending 70-80% of their workweek in meetings, and fewer than 25% of them have any training on how to lead effective meetings. Look at how high-performing organizations meet successfully to drive performance. In an effort to improve employee engagement at the technology company Cisco, teams regularly touch-base in a positive way. Frequency of care: How often do you show interest in what your team members are working on, say thank you, recognize others for bringing meaning + value to our work? Breaking the doom loop: You can't get a positive result when you start with a negative belief. "Every meeting is an opportunity to bring people together and achieve something that you can't achieve on your own." Get clear on your "why": Use this Lucid Meeting resource to define which of the 16 types your meeting is, and design it to be most productive. Elise shares a strategic technique on how to use silence to increase critical feedback to be shared + heard by all members of the meeting. Organizations that design meetings with a clear end goal in mind meet far less and waste fewer resources. Start meetings with icebreaker techniques to create bonds between team members and combat loneliness. Live Inspired office: Share an experience from the past week on how our individual work ties to the overall mission. Starbucks: Share a coffee tasting together. Lululemon: Clearing to be present before a Vibes Watcher. Elise shares 4 practical tips to have better meetings starting today: Take a moment before every meeting to create a clear vision of the purpose + desired outcomes of the meeting. Connect with each other as people first. Close the meeting by getting clear on your promises. Say "thank you." Get a copy of Elise Keith's book Where the Action Is. Elise Keith shared that she practices Hal Elrod's Miracle Morning principals every morning. On Live Inspired Podcast ep. 77 my dear friend Hal Elrod shares the techniques of his international bestselling book The Miracle Morning and how those practices helped him overcome two near-death experiences + build a highly successful business. Listen to Hal's Live Inspired Podcast episode today. ELISE KEITH'S LIVE INSPIRED 7 1. What is the best book you’ve ever read? Don Miguel's Four Agreements. 2. What is a characteristic or trait that you possessed as a child that you wish you still exhibited today? Sit still and not be fretting about everything I need to do. 3. Your house is on fire, all living things and people are out. You have the opportunity to run in and grab one item. What would it be? My laptop + a box of my kids' precious school pictures. 4. You are sitting on a bench overlooking a gorgeous beach. You have the opportunity to have a long conversation with anyone living or dead. Who would it be? My great, great grandfather Jake Patrick Aldridge. There are all types of family legends about him and I'd love to hear them come straight from the source. 5. What is the best advice you’ve ever received? Eat all the chocolate while you can. 6. What advice would you give your 20-year-old self? Just do the work. 7. It’s been said that all great people can have their lives summed up in one sentence. How do you want yours to read? Well, that was fun! *** Did you enjoy today's episode? Share it with your friends! Then subscribe, rate + review on Apple Podcasts. Live Inspired with John daily on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram + get his Monday Motivation email.

Meetings must have clarity of purpose, people need to know why they're being held and must be actively engaged. Renowned as the 'meeting mavin', author Elise Keith explains what so many companies aren't getting right when it comes to meetings and how high performing teams are designing the conversations they have to be more focused and intentional.  For more information, visit www.management30.com.  

Are you tired of wasting time in unproductive meetings? Host, Dr. Diane Hamilton, talks with CEO and Founder of Lucid Meetings, Elise Keith about productivity and how to achieve successful meetings every day. She reveals to us what makes a bad meeting and how we can turn it around for teams to effectively and efficiently work together. Furthermore, Elise uses The Great Game of Business as an example to further discuss some great systems to use in growing your business. On the other hand, CEO and COO of Thor Projects, Robert And Terri Bogue, grace the show to dive deep about what keeps people from excelling: burnout. They share how people get burnout and provide pieces of advice and effective tips in overcoming it. Giving a peek into their book, Extinguishing Burnout, Robert and Terri help people identify the things that are burning them out silently and learn how to deal with them to become even more effective. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take The Lead community today:DrDianeHamilton.comDr. Diane Hamilton FacebookDr. Diane Hamilton TwitterDr. Diane Hamilton LinkedInDr. Diane Hamilton YouTubeDr. Diane Hamilton Instagram

For many, team meetings are the bane of corporate existence. Too often, it feels like everyone’s time is wasted and very little is accomplished. So what are leaders doing wrong? On this episode of The TalentGrow Show, author and co-founder and CEO of Lucid Meetings Elise Keith joins Halelly to discuss how to get high performance and engagement from your team at meetings and run meetings that your team actually wants to attend. You’ll learn what should and shouldn’t be a meeting at all and why Elise recommends making all meetings optional. Plus, Elise shares two questions leaders should ask their employees every single week. Listen and don’t forget to share this episode with others! Shownotes: http://www.talentgrow.com/podcast/episode164 Apple Podcasts: http://apple.co/1NiWyZo Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=62847&refid=stpr Google Play Music: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ijwlgz7lklnxqnfzjna7gcr65be iHeartRadio Podcasts: http://www.iheart.com/show/263-The-TalentGrow-Show-Gr/ Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/talentgrowshow Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2CpgIk1 TuneIn: http://tun.in/pjuHL Download the free guide: 10 Mistakes Leaders Make and How to Avoid Them http://www.talentgrow.com/10mistakes Don't forget to LEAVE A RATING/REVIEW ON APPLE PODCASTS! http://apple.co/1NiWyZo  

“When you learn how to open a meeting well--how to frame it, how to ask the right questions--you can radically change what happens in that room” -- Elise Keith This quote is one of many jewels expressed by Lucid’s Elise Keith about how to conduct meetings in MLP 125.  We go beyond that to discuss inspiration stories in the corporate sector.  As we’ve come to learn in her previous visits (see links section), Elise always has a deep perspective on things many of us overlook. For more information or a transcript of our interview in MLP 125, visit: https://meetingleadershipinc.com/125

Elise is the co-founder of Lucid Meetings, and the author of Where the Action Is-Meetings that Make or Break Organizations.  https://www.lucidmeetings.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Where-Action-Meetings-Break-Organization-ebook/dp/B07CYM7FC4 During this episode we mentioned When by Daniel Pink https://www.danpink.com/ The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle http://danielcoyle.com/ Elise’s song is The New Star Trek Theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtyURjmO-mI Also, Elise has a very special offer for our listeners!  Offer Details We want everyone to enjoy excellent meetings, and we'd love to help the community of Elegant Warriors bring that excellence to the people in their worlds. We're pleased to extend an exclusive 20% discount on any Meeting School course when warriors sign up using the code:  ELEGANT-MEETING About Meeting School https://school.lucidmeetings.com Meeting School is the world's only online educational marketplace dedicated to making it easy for teams to run successful meetings every day. Meeting School features courses taught by experts in business meetings, design thinking, remote teams, meeting research, facilitation and more. New courses are added every month. For information regarding your data privacy, visit Acast.com/privacy

Bad meetings leave team members disengaged with the company vision, wasting everyone’s time in the process. Getting adult professionals to adjust their behaviors is no small task. The Successful Meetings Quickstart Program by Lucid Meetings is a great way to get your team more involved. In episode 117 of the Meeting Leadership Podcast, we invite Elise Keith of Lucid meetings to expand on the value of her Successful Meeting Quickstart Program. For more information or a full transcript of our interview in episode 117, visit: https://meetingleadershipinc.com/117

Today's guest in the Winning Teams podcast is a lady who hails from Brooklyn. She is Mamie Kanfer Stewart, the founder of Meeteor a company whose mission is to help people and organizations work smarter and have more effective meetings. Mamie is also a co-author of the book, Momentum: Creating Effective, Engaging and Enjoyable Meetings. Mamie is a mother of two kids and enjoys several interesting hobbies such as knitting, fine Trapeze, and rock climbing. After college, she worked in her family's business called GOJO and ran their philanthropic work. Through that, she learned about how teams work and how organizations function. When she left that position to do her own thing, she realized that not every organization has the same wonderful practices as GOJO. She launched Meeteor, initially as a tech firm. However, she recognized that instead of software development, the development of people is much more important, with a focus on effective meetings. Now, they train, coach and work with people to develop skills to help them have effective meetings and improved collaboration. Find out the full story here.  In this episode, Mamie shares with us:           Key blocks to effective meetings.         Changing the mindset of people to be “prepared in advance” for the meeting.         Shift your thinking from “Why are we meeting?” to “What will this meeting accomplish?”         The three different kinds of meeting participants.         Right culture around technology in meetings.         Breaking the cycle of “meeting after meeting after meeting…” inbred habit and routine.         Direct the meetings to a clear “Northstar” to avoid getting lost on tangents.         Don't be too internally focused – think through the perspective of your actual customers, stakeholders, etc.   Book Recommendation, Habits and Where to Get in Touch:   If you want to really redo your meeting culture, Mamie recommends Where the Action Is by Elise Keith. She believes that this book is very different and complementary to the book she wrote. It has helped her think differently about the meeting culture. Mamie's cornerstone daily ritual is going through her to-do list at her desk. On Monday mornings, she goes through the entire to-do list and figures out what needs to happen that week and tag them “This Week”. Each morning, she tags anything that needs to be done today with “Today” from her “This Week” list. Mamie writes down her to-do list on paper and puts it on her digital tool. She likes that it is always visible right next to her. It makes her happy to check things off either on the paper or her digital tool. You can find out more about Mamie's business at www.meeteor.com. Her podcast, blog and other coaching work are at www.mamieks.com.  

For every reason we have to celebrate growth, there comes a potential challenge we must face to keep our position. Most startups and growing companies will face questions over which systems to employ, which often leads to more questions when these systems are based on software. Enter Elise Keith of Lucid Meetings, a software company that provides software, services, and resources for systematic meetings.   We sit in episode 110 of the Meeting Leadership Podcast to discuss their invaluable software and how it can help you stay ahead of the curve in at least one aspect of business. For more information or a transcript of episode 110, visit: https://meetingleadershipinc.com/110.

Elise Keith is the founder and Meeting Maven for Lucid Meetings, where she leads their research, publication, and product management efforts. As a software developer, business owner, and someone who doesn’t like to have her time wasted, Elise has a unique perspective on meetings. Today she joins the show to teach us how to run meetings that get things done and that employees won’t dread attending. Listen in as Elise shares tips and tricks from her book Where The Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization. You'll learn what you can do to increase employee engagement, the 16 different types of meetings, and how to get better business results. You can find show notes and more information by clicking here: https://bit.ly/2lfSG89 

Elise Keith found herself leading teams that fell apart. As part of her efforts to improve she learned she needed to spend more time connecting in meetings instead of being impatient and direct. Now, she teaches others systems and practices to conduct more successful meetings.

J. Elise Keith shares what makes meetings succeed vs. fail.   You'll Learn: Signs of an ineffective meeting How the best organizations approach meetings When and how to opt out of a meeting   About J. Elise: Elise Keith is the co-founder of online meeting management platform Lucid Meetings. Known as the ‘Meeting Maven,’ Elise offers unprecedented expertise that inspires audiences, proving that meetings shouldn’t be fewer or shorter—but better and more effective. She is the author of Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization, which contains eye-opening strategies companies can use to structure beneficial meetings, create a healthy workplace culture, and propel overall team momentum. Book: “Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization” Company: Lucid Meetings Website: JEliseKeith.com   Resources mentioned in the show: Poem: “The Summer Day” by Mary Oliver Term: Chatham House Rule Term: Vegas Rules Study: “Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace” Harvard Business Review Book: “Time and the Art of Living” by Robert Grudin   Thank You, Sponsors! Monday.com. Collaborate more effectively--and beautifully--at monday.com/awesome. Eyeconic. Get name-brand eyewear easily and affordably from eyeconic.com/awesome. Babbel. Learn a new language anywhere, anytime with babbel.com   View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep492   

On this show, we talked about having successful, efficient and engaged meetings and how systems are the lynchpin for making them happen at your organization with Elise Keith, the Meeting Maven, CoFounder of Lucid Meetings and author of “Where the Action is: The Meetings that Make or Break Your Organization.”  Listen to learn how you can stop wasting time in meetings! For the Difference Making Tip, scan ahead to 20:59! You can learn more about Elise at LucidMeetings.com, Twitter and LinkedIn. For an exclusive discount, go to https://school.lucidmeetings.com/  and enter MONEY-SAVAGE Interested in starting your own podcast?  Click HERE George is honored to be included on Investopedia's list of the Top 100 Financial Advisors for 2019! You can learn more about the show at GeorgeGrombacher.com, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook or contact George at Contact@GeorgeGrombacher.com.  Check out Money Alignment Academy as well!

Meetings are key towards every company’s success, which is why it is critical for leaders to facilitate it properly according to the company’s purpose and goal. Elise Keith, the CEO and Founder of Lucid Meetings, shares how she started her company, how she got her very first clients, and how they developed a software that helped chair and leaders run their meetings. She shares her strategies on how meetings should be done and what makes a meeting successful. She also tackles the best practices before, during, and after meetings, as well as the common mistakes people do and how you can avoid these mistakes. Learn more about leading meetings efficiently with Elise in this insightful episode. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Consulting Success Community today: consultingsuccess.com

Meetings are key towards every company’s success, which is why it is critical for leaders to facilitate it properly according to the company’s purpose and goal. Elise Keith, the CEO and Founder of Lucid Meetings, shares how she started her company, how she got her very first clients, and how they developed a software that helped chair and leaders run their meetings. She shares her strategies on how meetings should be done and what makes a meeting successful. She also tackles the best practices before, during, and after meetings, as well as the common mistakes people do and how you can avoid these mistakes. Learn more about leading meetings efficiently with Elise in this insightful episode. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Consulting Success Community today: consultingsuccess.com

Meetings are key towards every company’s success, which is why it is critical for leaders to facilitate it properly according to the company’s purpose and goal. Elise Keith, the CEO and Founder of Lucid Meetings, shares how she started her company, how she got her very first clients, and how they developed a software that helped chair and leaders run their meetings. She shares her strategies on how meetings should be done and what makes a meeting successful. She also tackles the best practices before, during, and after meetings, as well as the common mistakes people do and how you can avoid these mistakes. Learn more about leading meetings efficiently with Elise in this insightful episode.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Consulting Success Community today:consultingsuccess.com

Elise Keith is the Founder & CEO at Lucid Meetings, an app that makes it easy for teams to run successful meeting every day. Their software embeds basic best practices and automates the administrative work involved in scaling a great meeting habit. She's also an author of the book Where the Action is: The Meetings That Make or Break your Organization. In this episode, Elise shares what she's found are the most common habits of successful remote teams and the key to make a project go well. She's found that when all the members in a team have clarity of decisions, they know who's involved in what and how they are involved, it's difficult to not see a project succeed.

Ever walk out of a meeting and think “What was that even about? How do I get that hour back?”. Unfortunately, a lot of us have been in that moment. Enter Elise Keith, CEO of Lucid Meetings, whose goal is to help businesses not just have better meetings, but to use meetings as a way of driving overall business success.

One of the biggest challenges in business is having high productivity and getting things done. Often, we find ourselves too busy to give time for the important things that we should be focusing on. In this episode, Elise Keith of Lucid Meetings joins us to talk about a fundamental tool that can assist you in business productivity - meetings. Elise is an expert at running high-performance meetings to get outcomes. Their company specializes in turning organizations with an underperforming or dysfunctional meeting culture into organisations that use meetings to their competitive advantage. In this episode we discuss: ● 01:40: The story of how Elise started running trainings and programs for productivity and achieving business goals. ● 04:11: Things that you can implement in your business to transition out of bad meeting experiences. ● 09:36: Elise gives an example and advice on making meetings a vehicle to embed values and culture to create a high-performance culture within the team. ● 13:06: Dr. Jesse Green's team's practice during their morning huddles and Elise explains how this benefits their business. ● 14:18: Skills involved in running effective meetings. ● 16:53: Things you should be working on or thinking about to hone your skills and improve your performance. Elise shares a story of the effect of leaving out meetings in business. ● 20:50: Outcome-based meetings as a key way for teams to communicate better. ● 22:23: The underlying key to scalability. ● 24:08: How to translate your to-do lists and meetings into actions. ● 30:04: What Elise wanted to achieve in her book, “Where the Action Is.” ● 33:19: Elise's advice for business owners wanting to transform their businesses.

     Often, we find ourselves too busy to give time for the important things that we should be focusing on. In this episode, Elise Keith of Lucid Meetings joins us to talk about a fundamental tool that can assist you in business productivity – meetings. Elise is an expert at running high-performance meetings to get outcomes. Their company specializes ...   Read more... This article is copyright ©  Dr Jesse Green The post 164. How to Run Meaningful Meetings appeared first on Dr Jesse Green.

Elise Keith is the self-described “Meeting Maven” and the author of Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization. She is the co-founder of Lucid Meetings, a consultancy that helps organizations develop and scale effective meeting habits. Elise is also the “Ask the Meeting Maven” columnist for Inc. Magazine, where she has written numerous articles on holding more effective and productive meetings. Prior to co-founding her company, Elise worked in the software industry for more than a decade. Elise believes that it is possible to conduct business meetings that are engaging, enjoyable and productive. She has dedicated herself to helping other organizations turn their meetings from boring-but-mandatory workday intrusions into dynamic, energetic and useful tools to help simplify communications and get things done. — Meetings. We all know them as a “necessary evil” that we are forced to endure during our work week. The broadly-held consensus is that they are disruptive, pointless, tedious and only serve to interrupt us. No one is ever excited about a meeting… right? Elise Keith loves meetings. Elise is the “Meeting Maven” and co-founder of Lucid Meetings, where she helps her clients conduct better, more engaging, and more useful meetings. Elise believes that well-structured and well-conducted meetings can be a valuable communication tool for businesses of all kinds. In this episode, Elise discusses some of the common complaints about business meetings and offers solutions that can transform meetings into powerful opportunities for engagement. Elise is also an advocate for the Ripple Effect, and she believes that with appropriate time-management skills and proper direction from leadership, meetings can become strong cornerstones of company cultures and values. Listen to the episode and learn from Elise’s remarkable insights into what business meetings too often are and what they can become through effective leadership. Ways to contact Elise Keith: Website: www.lucidmeetings.com Email: elise@lucidmeetings.com  

ELISE KEITH is the founder and Meeting Maven for Lucid Meetings. She leads their research, publication, and product management efforts, constantly seeking the best ways to make it easy for people to enjoy meetings that get work done. Leaders call her blog "a treasure trove of valuable info and guidance" and "a game-changer for our organization." When she isn't working on the industry-leading Lucid Meetings software platform, Elise shares her meeting expertise in presentations that audiences say are “inspiring,” “full of practical methods we can apply,” and “fill in all the gaps I didn't even know I had!” With a combination of experiences that gives her a unique perspective on meetings, Elise brings the awareness of a business owner, a software developer, a service provider, a researcher, and person who doesn’t like to have her time wasted, all combined with a deep expertise in meeting practice.   Podcast Highlights   Who is Elise Keith? Elise graduated college with a degree in theater, so that make her a creative that loves meetings. She ended up going into technology instead and found herself working for companies that believed they were going to change the world. She saw people spending a lot of time in meetings generally being unhappy to be there, but eventually during the course of her career she saw the missing link that those companies were missing.   What if I don’t like meetings? We have a negative association with the word ‘meeting’ as a society and that usually leads to a self fulfilling prophecy. If you think meetings are a waste of time, you aren’t going to put a lot of time in making it better. Our belief informs our action. The place to start is to change the belief. Meetings at a company that cares about what they are doing, where the goal is to align and recreate the kind of culture they want to live, is a complete game-changer. One of the keys to breaking the Doom Loop is to stop calling them meetings. What does a good meeting feel like? At a certain point in your organization you can no longer grow with just individual conversations. You need a formal meeting system to find solutions to the problems you’re facing. Create a greeting ritual that communicates who you are and what you care about. A meeting is your moment to design what it means to be part of your company. The icebreaker is a great ritual to open a meeting with. An icebreaker is a chance to be human and connect that way for just a few minutes. You must have structure, but that doesn’t mean an agenda. Go over your numbers so you can keep score and help your team understand their contributions to the overall goals. Take the rest of the time and look at the top 3 problems you’re facing and figure out how you’re going to solve them. Find a structure that works for you and then use week after week. Use one hour to learn a new meeting structure and save hours by not having to meet people one on one after your initial meeting. Lucid Meetings Education is a major component to the Lucid Meetings service. Meetings are a part of the business operating system, and communicating that is a big focus. Only 20% of managers in the US get any sort of meeting training. You are designing the system of how your business is going to run. When you stand in front of the group you are marketing your vision of what it means to be a part of that group. Meetings are teachable skills and the businesses that are thriving run really solid meetings. Bridgewater Associates, Pixar, Amazon, Oprah, and elite military teams like the Wildlands Firefighters have excellent meeting systems in place. Without it they wouldn’t be able to do what they do. To move forward, you have to a

Have you ever hoped for a root canal appointment (insert another unpleasant task) to get you out of a meeting? Elise Keith is the founder and Meeting Maven for Lucid Meetings. In short, she is looking for the best ways to make it easy for people to enjoy meetings that get work done. She joins Kevin to discuss her book, Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization. She believes that when you change the meeting, you change everything else. Elise emphasizes that the whole point of a meeting is to gather people for a purpose and shares different meeting types to help us get to the why.

Have you ever hoped for a root canal appointment (insert another unpleasant task) to get you out of a meeting? Elise Keith is the founder and Meeting Maven for Lucid Meetings. In short, she is looking for the best ways to make it easy for people to enjoy meetings that get work done. She joins Kevin to discuss her book, Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization. She believes that when you change the meeting, you change everything else. Elise emphasizes that the whole point of a meeting is to gather people for a purpose and shares different meeting types to help us get to the why. In this episode, Elise touches on 1. Successful meetings. 2. Agendas and desired outcomes. 3. Meeting operating systems. When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink https://amzn.to/2RkAtAX https://www.lucidmeetings.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisekeith/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lucidmeetings

Total Duration 50:42 Download episode 245 Do Your Meetings Suck? When you think of meetings, what thoughts come to mind? Words like productivity, efficiency, and great use of time isn’t what I normally hear. But if you look over your last week, you’ve likely spent a significant amount of your time in meetings so in the next couple full-length episodes, we’re going to be talking about how we gather to help you and your teams maximize that time together. In this episode, we talk with the J. Elise Keith, author of the new book Where the Action Is, and I'm excited to introduce you to some ideas in the book. Learn more about Elise and her book at https://www.lucidmeetings.com/book. Check Out Backlog Backlog is project management software trusted by over 9,000 companies worldwide. Learn more about our sponsor at Backlog.com/projects. Let's Stay In Touch! I hear from listeners almost every day, and I love it! How about you and I connect on LinkedIn? Go to https://PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/LinkedIn and send me an invite! Also, if you know of a group at your organization that has an upcoming large group gathering and uses outside speakers, let them know about the podcast! I'd love to work with them to help improve their ability to lead and deliver. Learn more at https://i-leadonline.com/keynotes. Thanks! Thank you for joining me for this episode of The People and Projects Podcast! WASTING TIME by DAY WAVE available on YouTube CHEERY MONDAY by Kevin Macleod Licensed under a Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 License.

For the last 10 years, Elise Keith has been on a mission to fix the thing that most people spend the most time doing at work: meetings. Who hasn't been in a terrible meeting? Elise witnessed people who should have been in conflict come together and have a great meeting. She has worked out what types of meetings there are, how to approach these meetings and how to get the best out of everybody. Today's episode is all about getting things done by using well-structured, well-designed meetings. Don't miss out! On today's podcast: Meetings don't have to be gruesome What makes a good meeting? Everybody needs to speak during a meeting Companies need to respect people's time How to make an important decision Book recommendations Links: Where the Action Is Lucid Meetings

Elise Keith is the co-founder of Lucid Meetings and Second Rise LLC and the author of Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization. “I think it's really important to learn the rules of the game and then be very sure that you actually want to play it. Entrepreneurship is not the same as craftsmanship. That was a mistake I made when I started I thought that craftsmanship was going to get me there. It's not the same thing. It's not the same thing as leadership and it's not mainly about innovation. All of those things matter but your success will depend more on either developing or buying or being given systems that make the 90% of what is the same for everyone go” …[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-6LW

In this episode, Steve visits with Elise Keith. She is one of the founders of Lucid Meetings where she leads research, publication, and product management efforts. And she is constantly seeking the best way for people to have highly productive and successful meetings. Elise shares her meeting expertise and presentations that audiences say are inspiring, full of practical methods that you can apply, and fill in all the gaps that you didn't even know you had. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What I Taught Today The last time you said "I love meetings!" was probably, when? Never? Hah! To the contrary, meetings seem like an enormous waste of time in too many situations, right? I recently interviewed Elise Keith about her new book Where The Action Is. The full interview will be published in January, but in this 3-minute episode, I share two ideas from the book and a challenge for you to consider while in meetings in the next couple weeks. Let Me Hear From You! What do you think about the idea of meetings as anthropology and the "game changer" discussed in this episode? How would things change if every meeting was optional? What's something you do to make your meetings more valuable? Let's connect on LinkedIn and discuss! I'd love to hear your thoughts! Also, what have you been learning lately? What are you reading? Please e-mail me (show [AT] PeopleAndProjectsPodcast [DOT] com) or leave a message on our Listener Feedback Line (847-550-3747). I look forward to hearing from you! Please give us feedback about The People and Projects Podcast! Take our Listener Survey at https://PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/ListenerSurvey. Thank you! Thank you for joining me for this episode of The People and Projects Podcast! Have a great week! Total Duration 3:02 Download episode 239

Meetings! They can either be great or they can be terrible. The general consensus is that meetings suck, but today’s special guest wants to transform your experience with meetings so that the entire team feels productive and ready to go!   Elise Keith is the Founder of Lucid Meetings and the author of Where The Action Is, a book about more productive and happier, meetings! She helps her clients implement an effective meeting operating system so that everyone in the company prospers.   When Elise first started her career, she experienced a lot of pointless drama and needless side conversations. Different departments had different objectives and they would often clash with one another, which meant the meetings were endless and also ruthless. These mixed messages would also confuse their customers too!   Elise experienced all the ‘interventions.’ Leaders did the DISC and StrengthsFinder’s assessment. The DISC profiles became excuses and the strengths became weapons. The diversity interventions ended up creating more barriers between team members. Yet, still, everyone tried so desperately to work together. They still cared.   Things changed for Elise when she witnessed firsthand what it was like to have competing interests and a system that was able to bypass all the drama and get things done. That system was centered around a very clear and defined way on how to run Monday meetings. They weren’t always interesting, but it got the job done.   These meetings had clear goals and objectives already laid out each week so that everyone was on the same page before they even started the meeting. Just with this simple shift, Elise saw people being aligned on what they had to achieve and… they were having fun doing it! If you run your meetings better, your people will get along better!   Interview Links: Blog.lucidmeetings.com Elise on LinkedIn   Resources: Scaling Up for Business Growth Workshops: Take the first step to mastering the Rockefeller Habits by attending one of our workshops. Scaling Up Summits (Select Bill Gallagher as your coach during registration for a discount.) Bill on YouTube

Elise Keith is the founder and meeting maven for Lucid Meetings — an online meeting platform that helps teams run highly productive meetings. She’s also the best-selling author of Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization. What you’ll learn about in this episode: How Elise began her career in business and the fortuitous twists and turns that led her to where she is now. Why Elise was motivated to strike out on her own after observing far too much discord and dysfunction in the company she initially worked with. Elise’s observations about the structure of larger companies for making decisions and her decision to create a product that would help smaller companies structure meetings so that they could make the transition from concept to reality without the drama and dysfunction that was prevalent in her own organization. The things people need to bring into meetings to solve problems and move forward: intentionality, purpose, structure. And how having a system aided in that. The importance of following a process when conducting meetings, including having rules that work for your organization. How Amazon conducts meeting sand why it works for them. Not to mention how similar rules might work for other organizations. The way your business conducts meetings reflects on your entire operation. When you get things done in your meetings, prospective clients notice. Why meetings need structure and not just a set of rules or a code of conduct to follow. Structure can be anything from “icebreakers” to moments of silence before getting into the meat and potatoes of the meeting. The three main components of the meeting operation system: performance criteria, meeting flow models, and support. The importance of measuring meeting results. If your meetings aren’t productive, the way you’re conducting meetings has to change. But, how do you measure the results? Why you need to know, going into the meeting, what kind of meeting it is or what kind of meeting you need to schedule. Ways to contact Elise: Website: www.LucidMeetings.com Email: Elise@LucidMeetings.com

Elise Keith joins the show to tell us how she co-founded her company, "Lucid Meeting" and about her new book, "Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization"!

Peggy and Elise Keith, co-founder, Lucid Meetings, and author of "Where the Action Is: The Meetings that Make or Break Your Organization", discuss meetings. Keith says every aspect of our world is moving faster, and thus we need to bring the people together. For many, meetings are just something that people do—it is not something leaders get training in. She suggests that is not always safe. Some organizations are very intentional and design systems that are very clear about how they make decisions and other techniques. She says there are 16 distinct types of meetings—each of which is designed to achieve a specific goal. Often, problems are caused because people aren't clear on what they are trying to achieve. Three major categories of meetings include: monitoring and moving forward the work we are already doing; create new ideas and solve problems; and partnerships and the art of the deal.

Peggy and Elise Keith, co-founder, Lucid Meetings, and author of "Where the Action Is: The Meetings that Make or Break Your Organization", discuss meetings. Keith says every aspect of our world is moving faster, and thus we need to bring the people together. For many, meetings are just something that people do—it is not something leaders get training in. She suggests that is not always safe. Some organizations are very intentional and design systems that are very clear about how they make decisions and other techniques. She says there are 16 distinct types of meetings—each of which is designed to achieve a specific goal. Often, problems are caused because people aren't clear on what they are trying to achieve. Three major categories of meetings include: monitoring and moving forward the work we are already doing; create new ideas and solve problems; and partnerships and the art of the deal.

On BIV Today... All work, no play? Mike Shekhtman (0:56), a Vancouver-based regional manager with Robert Half Canada, shares how Canadians grade their work-life balance, and what that means for employers. Then, Lucid Meetings co-founder Elise Keith (13:32) discusses how to win at meetings – the topic of her new book, Where the Action is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization. Kirk LaPointe and Tyler Orton host, see more at https://biv.com/.

 J. Elise Keith is the co-founder of Lucid Meetings and the author of Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization. For more information, pleasevisit, www.lucidmeetings.com and connect with her on Twitter, @EliseID8. 1. Five steps to increasing team engagement in meetings. 2. How technology, such as AI transcription tools, can help people run better meetings  3. Meetings as part of the business operating system, rather than meetings as isolated events. Examples: Ray Dalio Navy Seals Zingerman's Watch my Celebrity interviews on my YouTube Channel! Go here> https://goo.gl/EA9x6D Connect with Bert Martinez on Facebook. Connect with Bert Martinez on Twitter.

Meetings have a bad rap, but they're critical to how work gets done. Today's guest, Elise Keith is the co-Founder of Lucid Meetings, which helps organizations run day-to-day meetings to power their organizational success. Elise and I discuss the 'bad meeting doom loop', different types of meetings and how to string together a series to optimize how the team collaborates, and the most important thing to do when planning a meeting. Key Takeaways: Stop the bad meetings doom loop in which we expect meetings to be a waste of time so we don't prepare for them properly which leads them to being unproductive which reinforces our belief that meetings are a waste of time. Try this mindset instead: Meetings are a place where people come together to get work done. The word meeting is loaded. Try reframing your meetings by calling them something else like a weekly huddle or team crush. Keith identifies 16 types of meetings which she discusses in depth in her book. Separate meetings by their work purpose. Rather than compound meeting types, create a sequence of meetings that work together. In general, the more frequently you meet, the shorter the meetings can be and they are likely to be more productive. In contrast, the less frequent you meet, the longer the meetings need to be, and the less productive they typically are.  Read the article based on this episode: Effective Meetings = Effective Business Join the Modern Manager community for additional resources to support your learning journey. Subscribe to my newsletter to get episodes, articles and mini-guides delivered to your inbox. Get my book, Momentum: Creating Effective, Engaging, and Enjoyable Meetings at: www.meeteor.com/momentum KEEP UP WITH ELISE Where the Action Is: https://www.lucidmeetings.com/book Website: www.lucidmeetings.com Twitter: @lucidmeetings LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisekeith/ Goodreads Booklist on Improving Meetings: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/117713.Better_Meetings_Better_Business Check out Episode 21 - Managing Meeting Follow-Through - for more on effective meetings. Get the free mini-guide for episode 21 to help improve your meeting follow-through.

Meetings have a bad rap, but they're critical to how work gets done. Today's guest, Elise Keith is the co-Founder of Lucid Meetings, which helps organizations run day-to-day meetings to power their organizational success. Elise and I discuss the 'bad meeting doom loop', different types of meetings and how to string together a series to optimize how the team collaborates, and the most important thing to do when planning a meeting. Key Takeaways: Stop the bad meetings doom loop in which we expect meetings to be a waste of time so we don't prepare for them properly which leads them to being unproductive which reinforces our belief that meetings are a waste of time. Try this mindset instead: Meetings are a place where people come together to get work done. The word meeting is loaded. Try reframing your meetings by calling them something else like a weekly huddle or team crush. Keith identifies 16 types of meetings which she discusses in depth in her book. Separate meetings by their work purpose. Rather than compound meeting types, create a sequence of meetings that work together. In general, the more frequently you meet, the shorter the meetings can be and they are likely to be more productive. In contrast, the less frequent you meet, the longer the meetings need to be, and the less productive they typically are.  Read the article based on this episode: Effective Meetings = Effective Business Join the Modern Manager community for additional resources to support your learning journey. Subscribe to my newsletter to get episodes, articles and mini-guides delivered to your inbox. Get my book, Momentum: Creating Effective, Engaging, and Enjoyable Meetings at: www.meeteor.com/momentum KEEP UP WITH ELISE Where the Action Is: https://www.lucidmeetings.com/book Website: www.lucidmeetings.com Twitter: @lucidmeetings LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisekeith/ Goodreads Booklist on Improving Meetings: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/117713.Better_Meetings_Better_Business Check out Episode 21 - Managing Meeting Follow-Through - for more on effective meetings. Get the free mini-guide for episode 21 to help improve your meeting follow-through.

Pilar talks to Elise Keith, co-founder of Lucid Meetings. We talk about why “training how to run meetings” often fails and why you should take a holistic approach when trying to improve meetings in your organisation. visit www.virtualnotdistant.com Pilar mentions the new course on Leading Remote Teams, which will run from 12 – 23 February 2018. More information here: https://virtualnotdistant.squarespace.com/open-workshops/ In this episode, Pilar talks to Elise Keith, co-founder of Lucid Meetings, a company providing a software product to help meeting leaders prepare and run their meetings, as well as offering consultancy/training on improving meetings in organisations. What does “scaling effective meeting habits” in an organisation refer to? Understanding what the purpose of each meeting is, what are you trying to achieve? There are lots of different types of meetings! https://www.lucidmeetings.com/glossary Should we stop calling “meetings” meetings? Specially in the online space. “The perverse psychology of meetings”. When someone has a problem with a meeting, they rarely have a problem with a meeting. Why learning to run a meeting doesn’t mean you’ve learned how to guide a conversation. How and why Lucid Meetings was founded. http://blog.lucidmeetings.com/blog/why-were-focusing-on-meetings We need a shift in perspective not “training on running meetings”. How Lucid Meetings’ is evolving, from helping them run better meetings, to helping then have better conversations. How the templates in the software support this. The software as the “bad guy”. The Effective Meetings Results Programme – a more holistic approach to improving meetings in organisations and why our approach to meetings NEEDS to be holistic. https://www.lucidmeetings.com/effective-meeting-results-process Elise’s favourite meetings. www.lucidmeetings.com Follow on Twitter https://twitter.com/lucidmeetings