{"id":21066,"date":"2017-03-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/global2020prd.wpengine.com\/insights\/visi-bill\/"},"modified":"2020-03-21T08:17:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T08:17:06","slug":"visi-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/insights\/visi-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Visi-Bill!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Meetings: Cut out unnecessary participants  &#8211; visibility<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15556\" src=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/visi-bill-247x330.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Visi-Bill&quot;\" width=\"247\" height=\"330\" \/>We are currently running a <a title=\"Campaign for Better Meetings\" href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/meetings\/\">&#8220;Better Meetings Campaign&#8221;<\/a>,\u00a0designed to help people cut out unnecessary meetings, conference calls and webinars and radically improve the quality of those that remain. (There is no cost to join and an \u00a0opportunity to share experience and win prizes.\u00a0)<\/p>\n<p>One of the themes of the campaign is getting rid of unnecessary participants.<\/p>\n<p>In our <a title=\"Better meetings survey\" href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s\/BetterMeetingsSurvey%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Better Meetings Survey,<\/a>\u00a0we found that most people think that 25% of participants or more were unnecessary to the content of\u00a0 their meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Just for fun, here is one you may recognise\u00a0&#8211; Visi\u00a0Bil. Bill comes to meetings to work on his personal visibility, even though he has little to add to the content or conduct of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>He can easily derail conversations to bring around to things that are of interest to him or to give you self-serving updates on his latest project.<\/p>\n<p>Visibility is important in large organizations and people do need a mechanism for staying visible to those who are important to their career or the performance of their job. However, hijacking other people&#8217;s meetings to do this is not the right process.<\/p>\n<p>If you have unnecessary participants like Bill at your meeting, why not join our campaign and learn how to get rid of him?<\/p>\n<p>When you join the campaign, you will receive a series of six free weekly booklets that contain tips, ideas and actions to enable you to run fewer, better face to face and virtual meetings: <a title=\"campaign for better meetings\" href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/meetings\/signup\/%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Join the Campaign for Better Meetings.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are also running a Better Meetings Survey\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0you can take it \u00a0&#8211;\u00a0and find out how you compare with other organizations &#8211; here: <a title=\"Meetings survey\" href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s\/BetterMeetingsSurvey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">meetings survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve had enough of poor quality, boring and irrelevant meetings, join the campaign today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meetings: Cut out unnecessary participants &#8211; visibility We are currently running a &#8220;Better Meetings Campaign&#8221;,\u00a0designed to help people cut out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","type-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Visi-Bill! 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