There is a lot of knowledge, experience and skills in the room when you gather the team for a meeting. Why then leave it all untapped by doing all the talking yourself? Find out what participation can do for your meeting.

Some issues come up in meetings week after week. The discussion picks up where it left off and no resolution or decision ever gets made. Find out what a simple set of expected outcomes can do for your meeting.

Leader monologues, dominating whiners, lost time to secondary issues, and meetings that go on forever make us want to kill ourselves sometimes. Find out what a simple agenda can do for your meeting.

How can an opportunity so important be so regularly squandered? Boring, unplanned, endless and usually pointless, meetings have become a waste of time and resources. Find out how easily a few adjustments can turn this around for the meetings you lead.

How many leading industries did not even exist ten years ago? How many have disappeared altogether in the same period? Five and ten-year plans cannot be implemented with paying attention to ideas and trends.

People mature over time, develop their skills, and grow in their professional interests and capabilities. If we are not paying attention, we may lose these valuable assets assuming they will stay the same.

Problems crop up when we least expect them. If not spotted early on, they can spread like a cancer.

You've heard the saying, "Change is the new constant." When change is always happening, only the alert can adjust in a timely manner.

Goals and plans are important but can become straight-jackets or blinders in an ever-changing world if we aren't paying attention.

Fear often fools us into keeping to ourselves valuable information that might help the team because it is difficult information.