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Author: Gavin Grift
Publisher: Australian Self Publishing Group
Published: 2023-05-01
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 1922920185
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDon’t let another unproductive meeting waste your time. Mastering Meetings that Matter is the game changing resource you need to transform your meetings from mediocre to exceptional. This guide is designed for leaders and facilitators who want to increase the relevance, impact and significance of their meetings.
Author: Paul Axtell
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2020-02-01
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 1728229189
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMeetings 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.
Author: National Institute of Business Management
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780425123577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvery business has them--but some are more effective than others. Meetings can take up to 75% of executive time, and are usually much less productive that they should be. Now the world's largest private management organization presents the ultimate time-saving, goal-oriented guide for having productive meetings.
Author: Marvin R Weisbord
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 2007-07-16
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1605093165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis practical guide details ten key principles that will profoundly change the way you think about, organize, and lead the meetings that matter most. Rather than trying to change anyone's behavior, Weisbord and Janoff show you how to change the conditions under which people interact. By doing less, you help others do more. With examples from around the world, and practical tips and exercises in every chapter, Don't Just Do Something, Stand There! gives you many new techniques for helping people discover common ground, make productive use of dissension, and take responsibility for action.
Author: Tammy Adams
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2007-09-10
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 0470185007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHave you ever been involved in a project that didn’t require a meeting? Neither have we. Well-run project meetings allow teams to get through the maze of distractions and obstacles to achieve results. Unfortunately, many project meetings aren’t well-run—they are viewed, by team members, as unproductive, tedious, wastes of precious time. But you can change that. The Project Meeting Facilitator contains practical techniques and practices that will help you facilitate our meetings more effectively, transforming them into well-planned, well-managed journeys that engage the team while achieving the intended goals.
Author: Harvard Business Review
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Published: 2016-11-15
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1633692183
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMake every minute count. Your calendar is full, and yet your meetings don’t always seem to advance your work. Problems often arise with unrealistic or vague agendas, off-track conversations, tuned-out participants who don’t know why they’re there, and follow-up notes that no one reads—or acts on. Meetings can feel like a waste of time. But when you invest a little energy in preparing yourself and your participants, you’ll stay focused, solve problems, gain consensus, and leave each meeting ready to take action. With input from over 20 experts combined with useful checklists, sample agendas, and follow-up memos, the HBR Guide to Making Every Meeting Matter will teach you how to: Set and communicate your meeting’s purpose Invite the right people Prepare an achievable agenda Moderate a lively conversation Regain control of a wayward meeting Ensure follow-through without babysitting or haranguing Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, from a source you trust. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.
Author: Paul Axtell
Publisher:
Published: 2015-01-20
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780943097145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book will change your mind forever about that "useless" meeting you are forced to attend. Paul Axtell emphasizes that meetings are vital to the work of successful organizations--we need to master the skill sets for designing, leading, and participating in meetings. A consultant with more than 30 years in the business, Axtell outlines 8 strategies with a host of compelling ideas you can put into action immediately. This is a book for the manager who recognizes that meetings are at the core of the work you do, the supervisor who wants to be wonderful to work for, the employee who wants to contribute as much as possible, the project leader who wants every team meeting to add velocity to the project. Meetings are essential. So let's make them work.
Author: Terrence Metz
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 2021-09-14
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1523093161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis practical, comprehensive guide to designing and running more effective meetings will result in less time wasted, more collaborative decision-making, and measurably improved business outcomes. There's nothing more frustrating than an unproductive meeting—except when it leads to another unproductive meeting. Yet every day millions of people conduct meetings—in person or online—without the critical understanding or formal training on how to plan and lead them effectively. This book offers a structured method to ensure that meetings will produce clear and actionable results. Meetings that are profitable and productive ultimately lead to fewer meetings. This book offers leaders a significant edge by • Empowering readers to help their groups create, innovate, and break through the barriers of miscommunication, politics, and intolerance • Making it easier for them to help others forge consensus and shared understanding • Providing them with proven agenda steps, tools, and detailed procedures Readers will learn how to resolve or manage common problems, inspire creativity, and transfer ownership to their meeting participants while managing interpersonal conflicts and other disruptions that arise. In a world of back-to-back meetings, this book explains the how-to details behind game-changing tools and techniques.
Author: Susan Z. Finerty
Publisher: Hillcrest Publishing Group
Published: 2012-01-10
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 193729398X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on the experiences and ideas of over 100 matrix practitioners ... the frameworks, ideas and tips provided are shaped around the [seven] ... matrix mastery techniques"--Page 4 of cover
Author: Pilar Orti
Publisher: Virtual not Distant
Published:
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs an increasing number of organisations enable their employees to work from anywhere and as the number of distributed companies grows, online meetings are part of business as usual. While the trend in the office space has been to cut down on meetings to increase productivity, remote teams can benefit from a healthy meeting rhythm. During online meetings we can celebrate our humanity and spontaneity - and we can iron out those misunderstandings that creep in when our communication is restricted to the written word. ONLINE MEETINGS THAT MATTER is a guide for managers of remote teams and those introducing online collaborations practices. With a focus on strengthening the relationships between team members and using technology to support your team’s work, this book covers a range of ways in which members of remote teams can gather in the online space, as well as how individuals can prepare to make the most out of their valuable time together. This is a practical book that will help managers and their teams reconsider not just how they run their meetings, but their whole approach to online collaboration. Drawing on the wealth of many years of experience in the remote space, Pilar Orti, the founder of Virtual Not Distant, distills her knowledge of running online meetings and coaching managers to do the same, in this actionable and straightforward guide. Still wondering if this book is for you? This book is for you if you are the manager or leader of a non-colocated team, where working schedules overlap for several hours, ideally by no less than four. You might be making the transition to flexible working or ‘agile working’, and finding that your usual meeting schedule and formats are no longer possible, because you cannot gather everyone together in the same room. You might be worried also about people’s work becoming misaligned, losing team spirit, and people feeling disconnected from the work, the organisation and from one another – so you’ve moved some of your team meetings online. You might be a new manager, getting ready for your first online team meeting; you might be an aspiring manager, discovering what your job might entail. Or maybe you are a team member who understands the potential of online meetings, and wants to make sure your team makes the most out of them. You might even be a meeting facilitator or a coach, looking for ways to help teams and managers take ownership of their online meetings. And if you are someone who organises meetings for online communities, you will find aspects of this book relevant too. Finally, this book is for you if your team both needs and wants to gather together online. Some teams are happy to communicate on a one-to-one basis or through text, but if you think gathering together online as a team will help you to advance the work and create collaborative relationships, this book is for you.
