We spend a good portion of our work week in meetings, and meetings are an essential part of doing business. They are an efficient way for people to quickly exchange ideas and information, as well as come to agreement on various matters. Nevertheless, people often view them as boring and a waste of time. While you should only schedule meetings in your meeting room booking system when they are truly necessary and you should strive to keep them as short as possible, you can also improve the way you carry out meetings to boost engagement. If you have more interesting meetings, your teammates might even start enjoying them and looking forward to them each week. Here are 5 different ways to spice up your next meeting.  

Meeting room names are important. They embody your company’s identity, values, and culture. If you’re not picking out creative names for your company meeting rooms, you’re missing out on a valuable opportunity to show off your company’s culture and personality. Interesting meeting room names have the potential to make meetings more fun for clients while boosting employee morale. Creative meeting room names may even enhance creativity during collaborative brainstorming sessions. It’s important to pick meeting room names that resonate with the people that will be using those meeting rooms. Employees, clients, and prospects are invited to meetings in your meeting rooms, so the names of the rooms will impact how they think and feel about your company.  Having unique meeting room names is also beneficial because

Catered business lunches are a great way to build camaraderie with your team and even to conduct working meetings with clients. When sharing meals with people, you have the opportunity to get to know them on a more personal level. While business lunches feel informal, you still want to be sure that the food is delicious and leaves a lasting impression.   When planning a business lunch, first consider what the occasion is. Is the event a formal luncheon, or a casual corporate lunch? Do you want to serve the lunch buffet style or will it be plated? How many people will be there? Where will the event take place? These are just some of the questions you’ll want to ask when deciding what kind of food

The Phases of Visitor Management Your company’s reception area is the gateway to your office. Visitors to your office come in different shapes and sizes. They could be anyone from potential new hires coming in for an interview, to important clients. Regardless of the types of visitors you’re expecting, it’s important to process them quickly and efficiently while giving them a warm welcome.    Visitor management consists of a few different phases: before the visit, the moment the visitor arrives, their stay, and the moment they leave. It’s important to carefully consider each phase of this process when receiving guests.   Inform Visitors Before Their Arrival   Arm your visitors with plenty of information about the visit before they arrive. For example, you could provide them

Do you feel like your meetings are a waste of time and that they aren’t achieving their objectives? Maybe it’s not your meetings that are the problem, but what happens (or doesn’t happen) afterward that is the cause for concern.    We spend a lot of time talking about how to prepare for a meeting, as well as how to facilitate effective meetings, but just because a meeting finishes does not mean that the work is over. It’s risky to assume that because you had a great discussion during your meeting, the ideas you talked about will be acted upon or even remembered. Take the following steps after your meeting to maximize results and ensure that progress is made post-meeting.   Distribute meeting minutes