26 Stories To Learn About Meetings

cover
31 Oct 2023

Let's learn about Meetings via these 26 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the /Learn Repo to find the most read stories about any technology.

1. Discover the Truth About Time Management

When you’re in a serious discussion with people who are beside you, make sure you turn off your cell phone.

2. Forget What You See on TV: Good Ideas Don’t Come From Brainstorming

The reality of brainstorming sessions is far from the idealized scenes made to entertain us.

3. Make Time for Making: 7 Ways Builders Control Their Days

You have many good intentions at the start of the day, but before you know it, one request comes on top of another and you have a day full of meetings.

4. 5 Ways AI Can Improve Your Next Meeting

How to use AI to improve your meetings: Five ways to improve your team meetings through the use of AI meeting assistants

5. How to Behave during Video Calls: 9 Rules for Communicating with Colleagues

These days most companies have asked their employees to stay at home and change their office work for a remote one. In such conditions, the issues of organizing video calls have become especially relevant. It seems that online conferences for dozens and even hundreds of people are a step towards a digital future without borders when people can work from anywhere in the world and get together for negotiations literally by click. But in reality, video calls are often not as good as you might imagine. Someone cannot install the necessary program, someone is nervous  because of the relatives in the background, and someone appears at an important conference call in his pajamas and using the nickname “DimonKiller666”. We have put together some simple rules for making video calls that will help make them comfortable for yourself and your colleagues.

6. Synchronous Communication is the New Cocaine in Silicon Valley

This blog from Paul Graham beautifully articulates why meetings kill productivity for people in the "maker's schedule":

7. 3 Solutions for Sharing and Managing Your Zoom Recordings

Recorded a Zoom meeting, now what? How do I efficiently share it with people around my organization? How do I restrict access to such a recording? I want my marketing team to only view this recording so how do I segregate access?

8. Daily Standup Meeting Is Wasting Your Time

Here is how I saved my team 2200 hours annually not to do it.

9. There Are Only 5 Meetings: Standup, Demo, Plan, Reflect, and All-Hands

There are too many agile meetings that tech teams use. Save by adopting the essential types of agile meetings I use on my teams.

10. 4 Zoom Tweaks To Improve The Quality of Your WFH Meetings

The Coronavirus outbreak is no less than a fortune for Zoom. The cloud meetings app has seen enormous growth that roots from the disruption of normal routine due to lockdowns everywhere. From the surge of Zoom app downloads worldwide to the company almost doubling its annual revenue, 2020 may have a bad start for most of us but for Zoom it’s their heydays.

11. How to Do Meetings You Don't Hate

Meetings keep increasing in length and frequency, to the point where executives spend around 23 hours a week in them.

12. The Joys and Sorrows of Corporate Meetings

When was the last time you felt like bolting out of the conference room either bored to death or incredible frustrated and feeling like your time was carelessly and disrespectfully wasted? We bet it was as close as yesterday. What, is happening now? Well, get out now!

13. 10 Tips For Securing Zoom Meetings

Nowadays, remote work has become widespread with the effect of coronavirus. Although online meetings provide great convenience, it brings with it large cyber risks. Zoom is often preferred especially for online meetings. It is very important to take measures against cyber attacks for online meetings. In this process, I prepared some precautions with the experiences I gained while using Zoom. Here are some precautions for cyber attacks.

14. Meeting Room Booking System: How to Manage It Efficiently

In the present world, the work environment is characterized by any organization that is at a fast pace and has a large amount of exchangeable information. According to a research study, an employee spends their time in about 50 meetings per month on average. No wonder meeting rooms are completely booked up, and generally, an organization needs to have pre-bookings.

15. We Just Had Our First Virtual Reality Status Meeting

Just about everyone who can is working from home now. And while we're lucky to work in an industry that already works from home regularly and easily, there are still some aspects of being in an office that are difficult to replace. One of them is the stand-up meeting.

16. 8 Tips To Reinvent Your Project Meetings And Win

In a typical project meeting most attendees do not contribute but attend just to hear the conversation. A large amount of developer time is wasted. This drains resources from the project and can create a scheduling nightmare.

17. How to Lead More Productive Meetings

When it comes to scheduling meetings, I am a firm believer in Maker’s schedule vs Manager’s schedule. In his essay, Paul Graham touches upon the topic of optimizing the number of meetings. In this article, I would like to talk about another related aspect of meetings, i.e. how to optimize the meetings themselves by establishing good meeting etiquettes.

18. 3 Ways to Share and Manage Zoom Recordings

Recorded a Zoom meeting, now what? How do I efficiently share it with people around my organization? How do I restrict access to such a recording? I want my marketing team to only view this recording so how do I segregate access?

19. Successfully Change Collaborative Meetings With These Five Proven Methods of Facilitation

The five methods of facilitation I use to create collaborative meetings from over a decade of experience as a software engineering leader.

20. Top 10 Questions Managers are asking during 1:1 Meetings

I love 1:1 meetings. It’s a chance to swap feedback and make sure our company is working. It’s also one of the reasons we built SoapBox bot — a bot to help people have productive 1:1 and team meetings. The reaction has been overwhelming: Managers from over 500 of the best companies in the world (Adobe, Intercom, Wayfair, etc…) are now using it with their teams.

21. Just Your Average HackerNoon Product Meeting Notes [Feb 2022]

This Slogging thread by andemosa, richard-kubina, David and Kien occurred in HackerNoon's official #meeting-recap channel, and has been edited for readability.

22. How To Use the "10/50/99" Approach to Give Feedback

And how it reduces the odds you frustrate your team to the brink of leaving

23. How Live Streaming Is Helping Businesses During The Coronavirus Crisis?

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic, which means that it is an infectious disease passing from person to person in many parts of the world at the same time. The maximum cases have been reported in China where it originated and has more than 245,463 confirmed cases across the world. While China has quickly coped with the situation and reported zero new locally transmitted cases, Italy has become the epicenter with over 41,035 cases. As Governments have halted flights from affected countries, shut down businesses and entire cities, people are being insisted to stay at home to contain the spread.

24. End The "Not Another Meeting" Discussions: There's A Better Way To Hold Efficient Meetings

It turns out there is a way to hold better meetings. If you want them to be more efficient and productive, there are a few simple things your meetings need to b

25. 5 Benefits of Hosting Online Webinars

Webinars can help your search engine ranking, promote sales, reinforce your authority, and more.

26. Should You Enable Your Camera on Zoom Calls?

I have a simple question: 📽 Should you enable your camera on Zoom calls? There is a lot of evolving etiquette around this. A #slogging water-cooler style story

Thank you for checking out the 26 most read stories about Meetings on HackerNoon.

Visit the /Learn Repo to find the most read stories about any technology.