Have you just been asked to chair a meeting, or take the minutes, or set up a meeting agenda? Need some help? Would samples of an agenda or minutes be useful? What about some techniques for chairing a meeting or dealing with difficult people? Then this "How to ." book is for you. In it you will find: how to decide whether there should be meeting how to set up the agenda the importance of setting timeframes in the agenda-and sticking to them how to make sure that time is not wasted and the important items are covered how to chair the meeting how to stop time wasters and to make sure you spend the right time on the right topics how the minute taker can collect the right information during the meeting how to write the minutes how to get the best out of the participants how to deal with difficult people There are also: a checklist for the meeting chair agenda example and agenda template minutes example and minutes template a checklist for how to improve your meetings a checklist for getting the best out of people a checklist for the minute taker a checklist for dealing with disagreements, differences and conflict
They sap morale, and leave people frustrated or irritated. This is a shame, as leading an effective meeting is not rocket science once you have a blueprint. If you have an allergic reaction to wasting time in meetings, this book is for you.
How to Make Meetings Work: The New Interaction Method
Meeting Design will teach you the design principles and innovative approaches you’ll need to transform meetings from boring to creative, from wasteful to productive.
They form the basis for our approach at Silicon Valley Bank." Ken Wilcox, CEO, Silicon Valley Bank "Lencioni has done it again! Insightful. Practical. Ready-to-implement solutions. If you lead people, you can't afford to miss this book.
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 ...
You just need to know how. This book will show you the 3 Big Twists to make all types of meeting successful so that you can begin a new meeting habit that others will want to follow.
Visual Meetings explains how anyone can implement powerful visual tools, and how these tools are being used in Silicon Valley and elsewhere to facilitate both face-to-face and virtual group work.
This book presents the Lean Coffee method which has since its inception in 2009 spread across the globe to radically shift the way people meet with each other.
Yet, we all spend too much time in dull, frustrating meetings where little is achieved and even less is followed up on afterwards. In Hold Successful Meetings, executive coach and former Google leader Caterina Kostoula will change all this.
Authored by Hall-of-Fame-nominated marketer and Wall Street Journal cartoonist Stu Heinecke, this book reveals methods he's developed to get those crucial conversations after years of experience, and from studying the secrets of others ...