This weekend I suddenly flashed back to life before the internet. My son was working on a school project at the kitchen table with no books in sight. The library? No way, of course he found all of the information online. It was different back in my day. First you would look up the correct book in the card catalogue at school or in the library. And at home you’d dive into the encyclopedia. You know, Wikipedia, but in book form? You copied the relevant materials and then made the report. With pen and paper or a typewriter…and lots of […]
Paperless meetings? Here’s how to convince your manager!
As your manager’s right and left hand, you continually keep several balls in the air. Your work day is packed full. You relieve him or her of work, plan ahead and accomplish a great deal. In short: you continually unburden your manager or team. Every moment of time savings is welcome then, right? Wouldn’t it be wonderful, if you could optimize all of the tasks concerned with meetings? With paperless meetings as a tool you can make this dream a reality. Time savings You haven’t heard of digital meetings before? Then perhaps you lack a clear picture of them. Image […]
Your organization paper-free in 2017?
Paper-free, does that sound like utopia to you? I can well imagine! Each Dutch employee makes an average of 9 photocopies a day. The current total paper usage in the small country of the Netherlands is an astonishing 2.8 million ton! Okay, you enjoy “real paper” at home, for instance, leafing through a magazine on the couch with a glass of wine. However: we can and should drastically reduce paper usage at work, using the digital methods at our disposal. Reduce paper usage: how? There are various ways to decrease the amount of paper used by your organization. For instance, […]
Lean meetings: how do you accomplish them?
The term “lean” is still hot in many companies. According to Wikipedia “lean” is a management philosophy that is focused upon realizing the maximum value for the client with minimum loss. Expenses are hereby reduced, improving the company results. Lean can also be applied in the area of meetings. And that can result in a major efficiency gain. Efficient meetings Everyone knows that meetings are more than just the discussions. Aside from the planning of a meeting there is also the organization, mailing and reading of documents. And naturally there are agreements and decisions made during the meeting. And don’t […]
Meeting 3.0: 4 meeting trends
Two of my friends got new jobs this month, both of them for companies that work without a physical office. All of the colleagues work from home or at the client’s office. Every other week the colleagues meet on a Friday morning. They spend this time socializing and naturally discussing the progress of projects, and on other typical meeting tasks. Other companies have embraced teleworking where colleagues are not tied to an office or any specific place. They usually work from home and they thus see each other less at work. And this also often changes the way that they […]
