How to make your staff meetings worth attending

By Gordon Cairns
Community contribution / July 28, 2018

Most of us consider meetings to be boring, ineffective and frustrating so why do we even bother? Here are a few ideas on doing things differently.

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Gordon Cairns is an English teacher and education journalist in the UK.

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