Meetings don’t have to be painfully inefficient snoozefests—if you design them. 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. Meetings can and should be indispensable to your organization; Kevin Hoffman will show you how to design them for success.
No organization made up of human beings is immune from the all-too-common meeting gripes: those that fail to engage, those that inadvertently encourage participants to tune out, and those that blatantly disregard participants' time. In The Surprising Science of Meetings, Steven G. Rogelberg draws from extensive research, analytics and data mining, and survey interviews to share the proven techniques that help managers and employees change the way they run meetings and upgrade the quality of their working hours.
A thousand days of meetings is your fate if you have an office job that averages one meeting a day for the whole of your career. There will be more meetings than that if you get promoted. The further up the corporate tree you climb, the more of your time will be spent in various types of meetings until the most agile, those with prehensile tails, who reach the very canopy of the tree, get to spend all day in meetings. It’s a sobering thought, and yet very few people spend any time learning about meetings, or even attending training courses about meetings, which would in effect be meetings about meetings. The people who run the training courses would probably even attend meetings about meetings about meetings. As meetings are so common you’d think that there would be a degree in meetings, or it would at least be taught in schools, but no, there is almost nothing out there by way of training or education. True, there are a few courses about not looking at your feet while delivering presentations, or even courses in facilitation, but I’ve never heard of one about the art of planning, organising, booking, participating, enduring, chairing, minuting and ending a successful meeting. That’s what this book is about. If it helps to make meetings more efficient, by reducing the number, reducing the length of meetings, making them more productive and harmonious, fun even, then it will be the most valuable book you ever read, if it saves a few productive hours. If I can save 10% of your time in meetings, then this book is worth 100 days of your working life, if you read it early enough in your career. That’s half your salary for a year. You should write me a cheque! Go on, get your cheque book out.
Meetings should matter. No one wants to be called in for a meeting that could've been an email. No one wants to sit in a meeting where everyone's distracted or talking over each other. If you're going to attend or lead a meeting, don't you want it to...well, matter? Meetings are a chance to initiate a conversation with your teammates. You can communicate information with them that wouldn't have the same hold digitally. You can foster new relationships with your coworkers, and learn from their new ideas and perspectives. So why do so many people dread meetings? Because they're doing them all wrong. Change the way people think about meetings. Transform their opinions by holding a meeting that is efficient and productive, that is open and communicative, that is useful and important. Revolutionize the definition of a meeting. Learn to make them matter. Paul Axtell affirms the importance of meetings, and he redesigns them using the vital foundation of conversation. With real-life examples and actionable advice, he shows you how to design meetings for results, lead them to achieve agendas that move projects forward, and even allow time for building the relationships that make working together in a remarkable way possible. 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.
This popular and practical guide to every aspect of the law and practice of meetings in New Zealand is now in its fourth edition. It provides a concise guide to all types of meetings and is an essential resource for all those involved in planning, chairing and running meetings.
The summary of Meetings Suck – Turning One of The Most Loathed Elements of Business into One of the Most Valuable presented here include a short review of the book at the start followed by quick overview of main points and a list of important take-aways at the end of the summary. The Summary of The book Meetings Suck is a guide that will assist your company in saving time and money by avoiding the typical pitfalls that are associated with dull and ineffective meetings. It is not necessary for meetings to be boring and dreadful; rather, they can be an absolute joy. After all, ideas are generated, information is disseminated, and individuals acquire the knowledge and abilities necessary to become the visionary leaders of the future during meetings. Meetings Suck summary includes the key points and important takeaways from the book Meetings Suck by Cameron Herold. Disclaimer: 1. This summary is meant to preview and not to substitute the original book. 2. We recommend, for in-depth study purchase the excellent original book. 3. In this summary key points are rewritten and recreated and no part/text is directly taken or copied from original book. 4. If original author/publisher wants us to remove this summary, please contact us at [email protected].
A successful meeting is not measured by starting on time, having a great agenda, getting everyone involved, or even serving healthy muffins. While all these factors are important...a great meeting is simply one that achieves its objectives—in other words, where a problem is solved, a decision is made, a plan is developed, a question answered, or some other specific outcome is accomplished. In Volume II of The Parker Team Series, Effective Meetings: 20 Sure-Fire Tools, author Glenn Parker will help you achieve your desired outcomes. This easy-to-read book will guarantee better meeting results, whether it is an on-site team meeting, a tele-meeting, or a cross-cultural meeting
In the Western world, we have a plethora of groups and meetings. From multinational businesses to enclosed religious orders, from professional bodies and statutory services to community groups, from teams of colleagues to training courses, from local committees to self-help therapy, group meetings are endemic in our society.
Meetings should matter. Even and especially when those meetings are taking place online. No one wants to be called in for a meeting that could've been an email. No one wants to sit in a meeting where everyone's distracted by whatever else is happening on their screen, everyone is lost in the weeds, or people continue talking over each other. If you're going to attend or lead a meeting, don't you want it to...well, matter? An update to the original "Make Meetings Matter", this work is tailor made to help consumers get the most from every meeting — virtually! Meetings are a chance to initiate a conversation with your teammates. Not simply check a box on an agenda. You can foster new relationships with your coworkers, and learn from their new ideas and perspectives. So why do so many people dread meetings? Because they're doing them all wrong. Change the way people think about meetings. Transform their opinions by holding a meeting that is efficient and productive, that is open and communicative, that is useful and important. Paul Axtell affirms the importance of meetings, and he redesigns them using the vital foundation of conversation. With real—life examples and actionable advice, he shows you how to design meetings for results, lead them to achieve agendas that move projects forward, and even allow time for building the relationships that make working together in a remarkable way possible. Based on his award winning efficiency training title "Make Meetings Matter" and updated for the virtual meeting experience, 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.
