Meetings are either a powerful way of making progress in a team or on a project, or else they are the greatest waste of time and energy invented. This text sets out some practical methods for turning the bad ones into successes, and for getting even more from the ones you already find worthwhile.
Anderson offers useful techniques for conducting interactive, productive meetings in today's high-involvement, team-oriented organisations - from meeting openers, through ways of organising presentations, to ending meetings with a call for...
Provides school leaders with a step-by-step process for planning, setting ground rules, considering traditional meeting alternatives, making good decisions, and developing action plans.
One in a series of guides offering expert advice for managers, this book describes techniques for maximising one's time (both before and during meetings), clarifying aims, to improve the performance of everyone involved in the meeting ...
"Argues that monitoring one's electronic business communication 24/7 is actually counterproductive and offers a plan for companies to take time to ""disconnect"" in order to boost their productivity."
... Making Meetings Work , Second Edition covers everything you need to know about organizing engaging meetings , including preparing agendas , controlling what happens behind the scenes prior to and after meetings , and managing ...
Radical Candor is the sweet spot between managers who are obnoxiously aggressive on the one side and ruinously empathetic on the other. It is about providing guidance, which involves a...
Preface -- Setting the meeting stage -- So many meetings and so much frustration -- Get rid of meetings? no, solve meetings through science -- Evidence-based strategies for leaders -- The image in the mirror is likely wrong -- Meet for 48 ...
The interaction method is a new, tested way to stop wasting time and get things done at meetings. The interaction method: ·Increases productivity up to 15 percent; ·Works whether...
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Based on his award winning efficiency training, this book will revolutionize the meeting—moving it from that dreaded obligation to a powerful way to get things done in business and in life.