Articles

Below is a partial list of articles published by Bob Maitland.

They Are Happy To Come To My Meetings
After An Effective Meeting
You have completed an effective meeting that achieved its objective. There are a couple of additional steps that you need to take to cement this success and continuously improve your meeting process.

They Are Happy To Come To My Meetings
Conduct An Effective Meeting
You need to facilitate a meeting so that people, process, content and time come together to achieve the objective. This allows the attendees to leave knowing that they came to your meeting to accomplish something important. ...And they did!

They Are Happy To Come To My Meetings!
Effective Meeting Facilitation
Facilitating an effective meeting requires you to split yourself in two. You have to be both observer and participant. When you start a meeting with the objective and follow up with creating norms, you have positioned the meeting to run smoothly.

They Are Happy To Come To My Meetings!
Setting Up An Effective Meeting
You have the clear objective and a way to measure success. You need to invite the right people with the right knowledge, experience, authority, etc. Just add logistics, an agenda and announce the meeting. You are good to go!

They Are Happy To Come To My Meetings!
Clear Objectives For An Effective Meeting
Make sure that your meetings begin well through solid preparation. You first need to have a clear objective for the meeting. You must also create clearly defined criteria (measurements) that demonstrate that you have achieved the objective.

Employee Engagement - Why is it so low?
30% of your people are engaged with their work. 70% are not. This article tells you how to increase the percentage of your workforce that is engaged with the work.

Plow the Ground Now -Plant the Seeds for Change Management
Change management happens more smoothly if people have practiced the "tools" before hand. Get everyone using the "people tools" before you leap into a work change. You'll be surprised how much easier change becomes.

Change Management -Hidden Impacts That Cause Surprises
A Change Management effort can cause resistance pop up in people and in places that you didn’t anticipate. You need to investigate both the formal and the informal procedures that make the work move. Then you need to consider the real impact to all of the people who make things happen.

“Who Shot Me In The Foot?”
This article describes what happens when what the leader says is not in synch with what the employees experience. It describes how you can know and what you should do about it.

“Get The Most From Your People”
This article described how to involve your people to allow them to use their talents and their passion to help create a successful business.

“Leadership and Management – Different Tools For Different Jobs"
The premise of this article is that you lead people, you manage things. It describes the appropriate tools to use for each situation.

Change Management – Anatomy of Change
This article clarifies what is and is not change management and how to approach effective change.

Change Management – Role of the Leader
This article describes the critical role the leader plays in a successful change effort.

How to Deal With Being Overwhelmed What to do when you become overwhelmed by the mountain of work that you have to do.

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