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27 November 2009 | Posted inBlog News & Updates

What’s Your Personality Type?

So, I just read an hilarious article in Fast Company: Top Ten Meeting Personalities. It’s written by Jackie Yearney of Premiere Global Services (someone with a lot of experience in meetings). She’s created a top ten list of meeting personalities.

I’m guilty of being a meeting multitasker - it’s something I’m definitely trying to stop. Everyone deserves 100% of my attention! I’m much better in person than in online meetings (I mean, how rude is it when someone is constantly blackberrying when you’re trying to talk to them in person?!).

An old colleague was known for being a mobile meeter (also famous for “the flush heard round the world” – …

Worst Week Ever

Ever watch VH1’s Best Week Ever? Well, this week, I am having quite the opposite! No, nothing is REALLY wrong and it’s really not the worst week ever … it was just a hard week (this is where you get to make fun of me for complaining “my life is hard” – just like I make fun of my dog, when after a day of playing outside, he puts his head in my lap, gives me a pathetic look, and sighs really loudly – he too has a really hard life).

So what happened? Well, the week started out off kilter because I had to work over the weekend …