Dreading Your Next Meetings? Pregaming and Other Ways to Make Them Better
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Dreading Your Next Meetings? Pregaming and Other Ways to Make Them Better

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There are too many of them. “They are looking in but they can’t see everybody or they don’t know who’s speaking," says Nilesh Parmar, business area director of places, U.S., for Arcadis, a global design and consulting firm. “You’re literally having a one-to-one conversation and then the camera will pan back out and then take the whole room in again," says Parmar. So a team’s quarterly meeting in San Francisco, for example, includes a walking tour of Chinatown and a trip to see graffiti murals in the city’s Mission District, the spokesperson says. “They get feedback on word fillers, and the speed at which they speak, the cadence," says Janet A. Lenaghan, dean of Hofstra’s Frank G. Zarb School of Business.

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