How many times in a business, church, ministry or any team/group communication environment it is the loudest idea that is deemed correct?
Maybe you haven’t noticed, but most certainly you should start taking note.
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Most meetings are a complete waste of time.
There.
I said it.
Ever since college I’ve thought this, and even after I hit the business world my view of meetings has not changed. Sure, there are those exceptions, but for the most part, meetings are a waste.
Here’s a few reasons why:
You may have heard that recently Yahoo! bucked the trend and cancelled all of it’s working from home projects, pulling it’s workers back into it’s offices!
As I said, this is against the trend as more and more businesses are granting their employees the freedom to work from home for both the employee’s and employer’s benefit.
You might be wondering who is right, is it better to have employees in offices or working from home?
Well maybe this infographic will help you come to a conclusion and introduce some of the benefits of working from home:
Does your church, ministry, non-profit or business have a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policy?
Latptops, smartphones and tablets can be a very personal device, so many organizations have opted to craft a BYOD policy to streamline device purchases. It can give employees the opportunity to upgrade out of pocket and maintain personal preference. The days of purchasing 10 devices at once is moving over the horizon.
This is also a great option for non-profits and churches, as they may require particular pieces of tech–laptops and smartphones–but not provide them. This can be tricky to maintain–especially from a security standpoint–without drawing out some guidelines.
But how do you go about crafting a BYOD policy?
There are many different things to consider, so let this flowchart be your guide:
We often underestimate the diversity of a team (I’ll suspend all sports analogies for the time being). We often keep one team member in higher regard than the others. Maybe it’s just human nature, but let this be a reminder that we need different people on a team to balance and help each other. Just as we all have different strengths we also have different weaknesses.
A good team, a winning team, a solid team, is full of diversity.
Take a look at this insightful infographic on how different individuals interact with each other in a team environment:
How many things are you subscribed to that you need to unsubscribe from?
My problem is, there are too many things I need to be subscribe to, but I don’t need to fully read. I just need a glance to see if I need to dig deeper, but opening and deleting these emails can be a real time suck.
But thanks to Adam Shields, I found a nifty solution that should let me see those email notifications and newsletters without jamming up my inbox and make it easy to unsubscribe to those e-newsletters that I regret signing up for later (why do they have to make it so hard to unsubscribe, anyway!?!).
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Conflict happens.
Whenever you have multiple people, working together for a common goal, there will be conflict. We all see the world a little differently, we all have different interests, and we are all … well … human!
If you’re in charge of purchasing, you’re naturally going to have conflict with those in charge of the budget. If you’re a sound technician, you’re going to have some conflict with the musicians. I certainly don’t need any more examples, I’m sure you know what I’m talking about.
Here are 5 tips to help in these moments of conflict:
Now doesn’t that take telecommuting to a whole new level?
The video above highlights Beam, a technology excursion by Suitable Technologies that allows companies to leverage input from people that are not physically present; and it’s a little bit more than just video-conferencing. The robot receiver is on site, and allows the person piping in to interact in limited manners, like movement and such.
Now, don’t get too excited. We are not giving away any money. But I once heard a piece of advice that went something like this, “When you are talking to an innovative leader, don’t try to find out what they know. Try to learn how they think.”
Over the years, I’ve come to respect and appreciate the community around ChurchMag for many reasons. One of which was that it was full of people that were willing to share their expertise and give advice.
So, I’m here to learn today. If your creative team or organization was given $10,000, how would you spend it?
I had an email conundrum: How could I get my mobile email to work the way I needed it to work?
I’m a Gmail vet, people. Way back when Yahoo and Homail — I’m sorry, Hotmail — started letting in more spam than real mail, I decided to give the new Google beta a try, and haven’t looked back since. When I finally paired what had become my primary email address with a BlackBerry, it was paradise, baby.
My 8320 handled my email in the mobile space: Through POP-tinted glasses.
I almost never checked my true Gmail box online; why would I? It was way cooler to send email with the “sent via BlackBerry” tag on it. With such advanced features like leaving email in the inbox, sent confirmation email and unified inbox, it was, uh, well… something.
