Concentrate on important things.
Make meetings shorter!

Lengthy talk about worthless topics takes a lot of time. Often a team takes an hour to decide about an amount of money, which is by far exceeded by their combined salaries due to this hour.

Eliminate this kind of waste by making the participants aware of what is happening. Meeting timers have been introduced for this purpose. Based on salaries and other costs, these timers show to everybody how much money is used up during a meeting. It sometimes works wonders when participants see how much the company's money slips through their fingers while they discuss about nullities.

 

Needs diplomatic introduction

A conference clock filling a wall-sized screen is more attention-grabbing than a conventional conference clock hanging near the door. Sometimes this demands a diplomatic introduction.

2 Clocks

There is a meeting timer in meineZIELE and a newer one on our website, having both more or less the same functionality. Later versions of meineZIELE will no more have the local version but start the web version instead.

How does it work?

A meeting timer should include a brief description of its purpose (1). Furthermore, a start value, the value per hour and a currency (2) are required.

To prepare a start value of 0 at the beginning of the meeting, You also might start the clock with a negative value some minutes earlier.

At (4) You can add bans of mobiles or other rotating guidelines presented alternating with the clock.

 If you work on the topics within meineZIELE and change to another view, the timer will remain visible in the footer.

Examples

Meeting timers are versatile. Therefore you can change the description freely, for instances:

"We lose 85 customers to competing products every hour"
"Each hour we will be discussing we should achieve at least $10,000 value. If we do not, our meeting is useless."
"Our department store chain suffers 43 shopliftings per hour"
"This city makes $ 5800 new debt per hour"
"Our subsidiary makes £130,000 loss daily"
"This meeting leads to costs of € 800 per hour. Please be concise."

Tip:

Meeting timers on screen get significantly more attention than common wall clocks. That makes necessary that you introduce your meeting timer diplomatically.

Bans or guidelines

You want mobiles off? Or prevent participants from working on other things? More and more rules are agreed like "Keep notebooks shut!"  Punctualitiy improves when You put a piggy bank on the table and make unpunctual persons pay a Dollar for a good cause. Important: Announce this in advance!

 

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