Is your current meeting room not up to your standards? Want somewhere in a more convenient location? Maybe you don’t currently have a purpose-built meeting room? If you found yourself nodding whilst reading any of the above, then you may have given up on finding your ideal meeting room. But there’s no need to worry, that ‘perfect’ meeting room is very real! You just need to know how to find it…

Using a high-quality meeting room to host your business meetings is a sure-fire way to increase the credibility and general success of your organisation. Some of you may have experienced those moments where you’re forced to meet a client in a crowded coffee shop with poor internet access. It’s really not ideal for anyone and damages your business' reputation. But if you’ve ever held a meeting in a professional meeting room, you’ll know that it undoubtedly produces a more comfortable and productive environment than any make-shift meeting space could.

Business meeting rooms have changed a great deal in the past couple of decades. Where once there might have been a secretary with a typewriter, there are now a whole host of impressive technological tools, all designed to make meetings and conferences run more smoothly.

In Parts one and two of our ‘Creativity vs Productivity’ blog series, we established that not only is it possible to be both creative and productive at the same time, but it’s also important for businesses to encourage these skills as a means of nurturing company growth. In this blog – part 3 of the series – we examine how to be creative yet productive at the same time, and generate the perfect balance between the two.

In recent years, the business world has enjoyed a digital revolution. The internet has provided us with virtual tools for just about everything, from processing payments to accessing training.

Once upon a time, meeting rooms for hire were often pretty uninspiring places. Many consisted of little more that four walls, a table and a couple of chairs. Any art or decor was expected to be generic, and they weren’t really considered to be the type of place where you’d take a client you wanted to impress.

With the sun shining brightly in a cloudless blue sky, there is nothing quite like a hot summer’s day to boost happiness and make us feel on top of the world.

Whilst we all love the hot weather, we have to admit when we’re huddled in an office or meeting space all day, hot weather can be energy-zapping and draining. Fortunately, there are certain steps we can take to eradicate the counter-productivity of working when it’s hot outside, prepare business meeting rooms for the hot weather, and to keep meetings productive.

Here are our top tips on staying productive in meetings during hot weather...

You’re hosting a meeting in the dynamic city of Leeds, good choice! You’ve booked a meeting room venue, you’ve informed delegates of the date, time and location and you’ve even had the attendance replies back. You’re ready to go, right? Not quite.

So your meeting room in Leeds didn’t cost as much as you’d anticipated. Perhaps the catering wasn’t as expensive as you’d imagined, or maybe the meeting room venue was cheaper, or perhaps the IT back-up team you’d budgeted for was included in the overall cost of hiring the meeting room in Leeds? Whatever the reason, the meeting is over and you’re ‘quids in’. So what do you spend the money on?