Missileer
Active member
If anyone has the same problem I do in staff meetings after lunch, you'll like this.
HOW TO STAY AWAKE IN MEETINGS: OFFERED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE...
Do you keep falling asleep in meetings and seminars? What about those long and boring conference calls? Here's a way to change all of that.
1. Before (or during) your next meeting, seminar, or conference call,
prepare yourself by drawing a square.
I find that 5" x 5" is a good size. Divide the card into columns-five
across and five down.That will give you 25 one-inch blocks.
2. Write one of the following words/phrases in each block:
* Basically
* core competencies
* best practice
* bottom line
* revisit
* obviously
* to tell you the truth (or "the truth is")
* 24/7
* out of the loop
* benchmark
* value-added
* proactive
* win-win
* think outside the box
* essentially
* "hit the nail on the head",
* "having said that"
* "ya know what I'm say'n"
* at the end of the day
* touch base
* he goes/she goes
* client focus(ed)
* paradigm
* "I'm like"
* leverage
3. Check off the appropriate block when you hear one of those
words/phrases.
4. When you get five blocks horizontally, vertically, or diagonally,
stand up and shout "BULLSHIT!"
Testimonials from satisfied "Bullshit Bingo" players:
"I had been in the meeting for only five minutes when I won."
- Adam W., Atlanta
"My attention span at meetings has improved dramatically."
- David T., Florida
"What a gas! Meetings will never be the same for me after my first win."
- Dan J., New York City
"The atmosphere was tense in the last process meeting as 14 of us waited for the fifth box."
- Ben G., Denver
HOW TO STAY AWAKE IN MEETINGS: OFFERED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE...
Do you keep falling asleep in meetings and seminars? What about those long and boring conference calls? Here's a way to change all of that.
1. Before (or during) your next meeting, seminar, or conference call,
prepare yourself by drawing a square.
I find that 5" x 5" is a good size. Divide the card into columns-five
across and five down.That will give you 25 one-inch blocks.
2. Write one of the following words/phrases in each block:
* Basically
* core competencies
* best practice
* bottom line
* revisit
* obviously
* to tell you the truth (or "the truth is")
* 24/7
* out of the loop
* benchmark
* value-added
* proactive
* win-win
* think outside the box
* essentially
* "hit the nail on the head",
* "having said that"
* "ya know what I'm say'n"
* at the end of the day
* touch base
* he goes/she goes
* client focus(ed)
* paradigm
* "I'm like"
* leverage
3. Check off the appropriate block when you hear one of those
words/phrases.
4. When you get five blocks horizontally, vertically, or diagonally,
stand up and shout "BULLSHIT!"
Testimonials from satisfied "Bullshit Bingo" players:
"I had been in the meeting for only five minutes when I won."
- Adam W., Atlanta
"My attention span at meetings has improved dramatically."
- David T., Florida
"What a gas! Meetings will never be the same for me after my first win."
- Dan J., New York City
"The atmosphere was tense in the last process meeting as 14 of us waited for the fifth box."
- Ben G., Denver