3 Down and Dirty Ways to Keep Your Meetings Engaging

Looking to keep your meeting attendees from napping during the meeting? Here are smart tactics for keeping participants fully engaged.

Start with culture. A company’s culture can do a lot to ensure efficient meetings. If smartphones aid the task at hand, by all means use them.

Create small teams. Break larger groups into teams of five for discussions–it’s very hard to stay glued to your phone when there are four other people sitting around looking at you.

Switch things up. Keep larger groups on the move, changing activities every 30 minutes. Try to create energy in as many different ways as possible so attendees want to be engaged. With a larger group, it’s really hard to monitor multi-taskers, so keeping the meeting interesting and interactive is important.

Suggested activities can include using the use of flip charts for brainstorming, distributing discussion questions on index cards and letting attendees choose their own topic, or throwing in a few off-topic logic puzzles and offering rewards to those who get the right answer.

If you have to go to a business meeting or a corporate event, Philadelphia Limousine has all your corporate travel needs covered. Whether it’s in the Philadelphia/New Jersey/Delaware Valley/NYC metro area Philadelphia  Limo offers multiple transportation options for business travelers, meetings, groups and conventions.

Stuck in an Airport? Here’s What To Do...

Anyone who travels regularly for business or leisure knows the feeling that you get when you hear the ‘flight delayed’ announcement. You’re heart sinks as the reality dawns, you’re not going to get to your destination on time and you’re stuck in an Airport. The experience is never pleasant but with these short tips, hopefully your experience need not be too dire.

Get Out

If you have a really long delay, then the best solution is to simply remove yourself from the airport environment. Call a limousine car service, perhaps the one that you’ve already used to get to the airport, and as soon as is practical an immaculately mannered chauffeur with a great knowledge of the city and a spotless limousine will turn up and be placed at your disposal. You’ll feel a bit better about being stuck, guaranteed.

Get Something Done

This may, for business travelers, seem too obvious to even list. But our suggestion is to find somewhere appropriately connected and quiet, forget the delays and simply catch up on whatever it is you have to do. The most obvious place is an airport lounge but if that is not possible, take step one first and get out of the airport.

How does this help you feel better about being delayed? Aside from the time lost and the effect of not seeing loved ones, delays cause stress because they rob you of the time that you have to complete your workload. If you can complete a good proportion of your ‘day job’ during travel delays you’ll make it a whole lot less stressful when you finally get back on schedule.

Get Your Phone Out

If you really can’t get out or do any work; let’s say it’s just a 30 minute delay, then use this time to catch up with someone who’s important to you. Speaking to someone will definitely take your mind off you present predicament and will be time well spend.

Regardless of what you to do make your delayed-flight time more pleasant the key would seem to be to do something to make it better. Take charge and don’t just accept that the situation is negative, try and use it for your own good. If you can, reduce your workload, see something new or catch up with an old friend.

We hope that these short tips have given you an idea about how to cope with delays. We really hope it will never happen, but if it does we can offer you one more concrete service: As a limousine company based in Philadelphia, we can get you out of Philadelphia International Airport and take somewhere where you could feel better and be more productive. Philadelphia Limo offers you the perfect solution: an immaculate limousine and well-informed chauffeur who can take you where you need to go, or suggest where you can find something to do, if you don’t know where to go. Call us today for all your travel needs.