The Power of Business Retreats – Tips for Team-building

Recently, Courtney and I (co-founders of Teamings) took our families on a vacation together. This is something we do nearly every year and each year I’m blown away by its effect. This isn’t an official business retreat, but since we’re business partners, business discussions inevitably come to the table. Through these informal interactions we gained … Continued

8 Free On-line Tools Trainers Can Use to Make Amazing Visual Aids

Here at TEAMINGS, we value productive and effective meetings and training sessions. We make training sessions productive because we focus on what really matters- how to turn a group of people into a team focused on their learning objective. We do this by creating a virtual learning environment that mimics the classroom setting. This blog … Continued

12 Signs Your Meeting Might Fail

There are good meetings and bad meetings. The successful meetings leave people feeling informed, inspired and productive. The bad ones leave people rolling their eyes, checking their e-mails and wishing they were somewhere else. Make sure your meeting isn’t destined to be one of the bad ones.

Getting the most out of your all-staff meetings

All-staff or Town Hall meetings can be incredibly useful to an organization. An effective meeting can solve problems, build morale, promote teamwork, reinforce company culture, boost profitability, uncover weaknesses, generate ideas and increase productivity. Unfortunately, many all-hands meetings fall short of these goals. But that doesn’t mean leadership should give up on bringing everyone together … Continued

You Need a Meeting Room Manager

Are you looking for ways to have more effective meetings? A meeting room manager may be the solution for you. Meetings are an important part of business. Meetings are where we make decisions, plan action, innovate and collaborate.

3 Ways Breakout Sessions Can Improve Web Meetings

Simple ways to increase meeting engagement Most audio and a few web conferencing tools enable the host to create multiple breakout sessions.  Breakout rooms (aka Concurrent sessions, breakout session, etc.) are sub-rooms that can be used to split a large group into smaller groups that can talk and/or collaborate. Unfortunately, breakout rooms are underutilized despite … Continued