One of the best things about blogging is virtually meeting people who you never would have met otherwise. Erik Mazzone is one of the interesting people I've been very glad to meet along the way. He has
an interesting blog that I really enjoy reading. It's a funny connection because of our different backgrounds. I'm a research lab director, and grew up in the research and engineering ranks. Erik is a career consultant for lawyers, and was a practicing lawyer.
Erik works daily with lawyers. I work daily with technologists and business people. We resonate with each other on many of our posts, but a funny thing happened. I posted my "
Top 10 tips for how to talk in groups" and invited people to make comments and add their own tips to the list. Erik came in with a very different set of tips!
My tips were geared for the quiet people who have great ideas but have not yet mastered how to insert themselves into a group discussion. This reflects the state of many researchers (and people in general) who I know, so I was basically encouraging them to speak up more. Erik's tips (you can see them in the blog post comments) were more geared for talkative people who tend to speak up a lot, and perhaps even too much. They were geared for a very different audience and work environment. We started talking, and I thought it would be good (and fun) for him to make a top 10 tips list, too. He came up with a great list which I call "
Erik Mazzone's Top 10 Tips for Meeting Etiquette"! Enjoy!
Quiet people- Go to my tips!
Talkative people- Go to Erik's tips!
Everybody- Take a peek at the other tips!
Let's have more productive meetings together! :)
And, if you are yet another type of person- then help us understand your type and maybe we can turn it into another set of tips!
So, here are a few questions:
Which type of person are you? What do you think of your tips?
What do you think of the tips for the other type of people? Any tips to add?
What are you your experiences of being in meetings with people of the other type? Be honest (and funny, if you like)!
Feel free to comment on Erik's blog or here... We will stay linked.
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Posted
06-22-2007 2:40 PM
by
susie.wee