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Thought for the day

Although here at MeetingWorld we have a section relating to romantic meetings, until now we’ve not found a book on the subject we’d like to draw your attention to. Anyway, here is one that might be good. I haven’t read it ‘cos I’m already with a wonderful long-term partner. But for those of you who aren’t, this might be worth the modest purchase price. Anyway – Meeting Your Half-Orange: An Utterly Upbeat Guide to Using Dating Optimism to Find Your Perfect Match""” target=”_blank”>(Kindle version)

This is what Amazon say: “Discover the power of positive dating! ‘Half-orange’ refers to the Spanish term ‘mi media naranja’, which is used to describe one’s beautiful, sweet, perfect other half. Now relationship expert Amy Spencer provides women with a step-by-step programme on how to grow one’s ‘half-orange’ from soil, seed, to ‘fruit-ion’ – by harnessing ‘Dating Optimism’. Rather than admonishing readers to make themselves more available, or turn dating into a full-time job,
“Meeting Your Half-Orange” teaches how to focus on the relationship they want with such intensity, the right person will come within a short period of time after completing the following phases: phase one – get your soil ready: believe you can have it; phase two – hit the garden shop: admit you want it; phase three – how to choose your seed: what do you want?; phase four – how to plant the seed: focus and imagine feeling it; phase five – dream of the perfect fruit: openly hope for it, like you’ve never hoped for anything before; phase six – nurture your sapling to bloom: live a happy life; and, phase seven – know when to pluck: how to recognize your half-orange.”

Tip of the day

Picture the scene with you as an entrepreneur in happy conversation with a potential investor. Yes, it’s an investment meeting. Feeling pretty good are you? Of course you are. That’s because I’ve gone out of my way to help you feel like that. What a decent chap I am. Or am I? Read on dear entrepreneur.

What every serious potential investor (like me) will ask before considering an investment in your company. Are these sales imaginary? Companies don’t go bust through lack of profits. They go bust through a lack of cash. It’s true. Very true! Speaking of cash, it’s important to realise that ….. http://bit.ly/q7S7N0

Tip of the day

Meetings are an absolute doddle are they? Really? Possibly – but in our experience only rarely. Avoid the assumption and self-delusion that if you’re competent in a few aspects of running a business that axiomatically you’ll be competent or at least ‘reasonable’ in all the others. This is a potentially fatal error. It really is.

My advice is for you to ……… http://bit.ly/pCnVO5

Tip of the day

Oh no. Not another meeting where you’ll be victim to your paranoia or, worse yet, from the fact that one or more people there just … don’t … like … you?

So, get real. It happens. It’s no big deal.

The two paragraphs below, if you follow the instruction to the letter, will very probably help you rise above all that emotional trivia. It’s worked for me and so why not for you? So dry your tears and as our US cousins say -“listen up son”

Here’s a different slant on ‘contentment.’ If someone in your organisation doesn’t like you (the reasons are immaterial at this stage) and make this clear in a meeting, then here’s what you do. Stop trying to get them to like you. Focus and concentrate on getting them not to dislike you. Aim for what I call ‘relationship neutrality’ in many cases it’s sufficient.

So okay, they have no feelings about you. Great! Be content with that. Maybe someday you’ll get them to like you – if that’s what you want. But ask yourself this. Will this be likely to help you really (yes, really) help you progress? Is it worth the effort when neutrality is so much easier and … might well lead to the same outcome?

Thought for the day

J Stalin’s approach to meetings and indeed many other matters: “Death solves all problems – no man, no problem.”

Bosses: Six Tips to Keep Your Meetings on Track

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Are you a boss who struggles to keep meetings on track? If so, try the six tips below. They will help you bring focus to your team and run your gatherings in a smoother fashion.

Read more here:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/8108443/bosses_six_tips_to_keep_your_meetings.html

Now, now. There’s you, having expected everything to go so well in the networking meeting and yet – somehow – it didn’t. You just didn’t click with anyone, or was it that they didn’t with you? There, there. Get over it! Plan for the next one.

You can’t undo the past, but you sure can learn from it. Here’s how to get your thinking just right for next time.

If you can’t think of a way to give value, ask the one question that no one has ever asked me in a networking meeting: “What can I do to help you?” This will surprise and flatter the person you’re meeting. Even if they can’t think of anything, they’ll remember you.

How to Practice Proper Business Etiquette in China

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In the musical ‘The Music Man’, a travelling salesman says that “You’ve got to know the territory.” Knowing the territory is even more important when doing business abroad. The wrong action or phrase could sink a deal. Here are a few tips on how to practice proper business etiquette in China.

Read more here:

http://www.ehow.com/how_2092415_business-etiquette-china.html