Meetings are one of the most common business activities across nearly every industry and organization. Billions of dollars are wasted every year on countless, ineffective meetings. Frustrations commonly expressed include a lack of clear purpose, no developed agendas, no one knows why they were invited, not reaching any decisions, discussions running off-track, and a lack of follow up.Meeting management principles and skills are never taught in school, and most organizations fail to offer this as part of their orientation and training programs. And yet, leading meetings is a standard expectation. So where do they expect you to learn this?Imagine if you were trained with a simple, straightforward methodology around leading effective meetings. You would consistently achieve the results you want, people would feel valued for their input, greater collaboration would take place, and all your projects and initiatives would move forward successfully.Unleash Your Meeting Potential¿ guides you through a proven, standardized approach called The 3 Step Meeting Framework¿. This book details everything you should do before, during and after a meeting. You will learn how to:¿Define your meeting purpose, objectives and expected outcomes¿Identify and invite the right people, and select the appropriate meeting format¿Determine the logistics, and develop a meeting appointment¿Create a clear meeting agenda, and lead an effective discussion¿Document the key decisions, action items, and next steps ¿Develop a follow up communication, and hold participants accountable¿And so much more¿Meetings are a powerful enabler to achieving success in your career. If you are looking to lead more effective meetings immediately, this leading, ¿go-to¿ resource book is for you.
Unleash Your Career Potential provides an individualized, customizable approach to mapping out a dream career. People everywhere were born to grow and have a meaningful career. But most end up feeling stuck, like they are in slow motion, afraid they won’t be able to experience fulfilling relationships if they choose to accelerate their next big career move. Responding to the challenges of an increasingly globalized and digitalized work culture, Unleash Your Career Potential provides the necessary tools to unleash potential and accelerate your career. Karla Blanco’s seven-step process combines practical, actionable advice with deeply inspiring insight that breaks the mold of a traditional vocational guidebook. Karla helps readers design their dream career, understand job level satisfaction, create a “Board of Advisors,” and more. Unleash Your Career Potential is the ideal resource for those who desire a fulfilling career in today’s world and want to take pack the power in their lives right now.
Unleash Your Meeting Potential™: A Comprehensive Guide to Leading Effective MeetingsMeetings are one of the most common business activities across nearly every industry and organization. Billions of dollars are wasted every year on countless, ineffective meetings. Frustrations commonly expressed include a lack of clear purpose, no developed agendas, no one knows why they were invited, not reaching any decisions, discussions running off-track, and a lack of follow up.Meeting management principles and skills are never taught in school, and most organizations fail to offer this as part of their orientation and training programs. And yet, leading meetings is a standard expectation. So where do they expect you to learn this?Imagine if you were trained with a simple, straightforward methodology around leading effective meetings. You would consistently achieve the results you want, people would feel valued for their input, greater collaboration would take place, and all your projects and initiatives would move forward successfully.Unleash Your Meeting Potential™ guides you through a proven, standardized approach called The 3 Step Meeting Framework™. This book details everything you should do before, during and after a meeting. You will learn how to:Define your meeting purpose, objectives and expected outcomesIdentify and invite the right people, and select the appropriate meeting formatDetermine the logistics, and develop a meeting appointmentCreate a clear meeting agenda, and lead an effective discussionDocument the key decisions, action items, and next stepsDevelop a follow up communication, and hold participants accountableAnd so much more…Meetings are a powerful enabler to achieving success in your career. If you are looking to lead more effective meetings immediately, this leading, “go-to” resource book is for you.
In a fast paced life we are living in right now, we often forget to give ourselves apt time. In a lifestyle hugely driven by rush, it’s quite normal to see people break down slowly. What goes missing? A mentor and a guide who would listen to your problems and help you solve them. We keep looking for that guide in the form of motivational articles, books or speeches and sooner or later it fizzes out. This is where we need to change. We need to understand that we all are a source of infinite potential and there is nothing you should seek outside of yourself to guide you. This book aims to do the same to help you grow inside out. This compilation of various motivational chapters gives a new meaning to various life lessons and how you should deal with it.
This book is about unleashing the potential with which you were born but got limited or shrunk over the period of time. Your Real Potential remains untapped by the conditioning, the old beliefs and firm ideologies goverened by the society and mostly the people around you. Our academic education also doesn't realise the importance of life sciences. So in this book I am taking you in the journey of self realization and unmasking the hidden treasure inside you. Today most important roadblock in everyone's lifejourney is Stress and Anxiety. So I am starting this journey with you by eliminating stress and anxiety. And after eliminating stress and anxiety, you will be able to become more aware about various important areas of your life like Happiness, Habit, Focus, Relationships etc and How to master them. I am going to give you a scientifically proven techniques and steps to ultimately master your life.
"Hosts of all kinds, this is a must-read!" --Chris Anderson, owner and curator of TED From the host of the New York Times podcast Together Apart, an exciting new approach to how we gather that will transform the ways we spend our time together—at home, at work, in our communities, and beyond. In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker argues that the gatherings in our lives are lackluster and unproductive--which they don't have to be. We rely too much on routine and the conventions of gatherings when we should focus on distinctiveness and the people involved. At a time when coming together is more important than ever, Parker sets forth a human-centered approach to gathering that will help everyone create meaningful, memorable experiences, large and small, for work and for play. Drawing on her expertise as a facilitator of high-powered gatherings around the world, Parker takes us inside events of all kinds to show what works, what doesn't, and why. She investigates a wide array of gatherings--conferences, meetings, a courtroom, a flash-mob party, an Arab-Israeli summer camp--and explains how simple, specific changes can invigorate any group experience. The result is a book that's both journey and guide, full of exciting ideas with real-world applications. The Art of Gathering will forever alter the way you look at your next meeting, industry conference, dinner party, and backyard barbecue--and how you host and attend them.
“A must-read for anyone interested in moving from inspiration to action.” —Cal Newport, author of So Good They Can’t Ignore You Most of us fill our days with frantic activity, bouncing from task to task, scrambling to make deadlines and chase the next promotion. But by the end of each day we’re often left wondering if any of it really mattered. We feel the ticking of the clock, but we’re unsure of the path forward. Die Empty is a tool for people who aren’t willing to put off their most important work for another day. Todd Henry explains the forces that lead to stagnation and introduces practices that will keep you on a true and steady course. The key is embracing the idea that time is finite, so you should focus on the unique contribution to the world that only you can make. Henry shows how to sustain your enthusiasm, push through mental barriers, and unleash your best work each day.
In Unleashing Your Own Potential, Robert Henry, a former bank robber, teaches us to look closely at the decisions we make and make better ones. He knows from experience how important it is to make the right kinds of decisions because they can determine our destiny. His successful career in real estate and the personal happiness he’s found are testaments to the fact that the right decisions can open doors to achieving your full potential. Do you feel there is greatness inside you, but you don’t know how to unleash it? Unleashing Your Own Potential: The Self-Leadership Journey from Rock Bottom to Prosperity is a page-turner that is part memoir, part personal development, written by a man who transformed himself from living a life of crime to one of prosperity and giving back. Henry’s story is like none you’ve ever read before. After a difficult upbringing that Henry shares, he seemed to turn things around by going into sales and prospering in his career. In fact, he was doing so well that he and some of his colleagues decided to go into business for themselves. That’s when everything started to fall apart. The company Henry worked for, learning their employees might soon become their competitors, brought unjust criminal accusations against them, making Henry’s life very difficult. After being found guilty of crimes that were not really crimes at all, his life became complicated when he was assigned to a corrupt probation officer. This probation officer did everything imaginable to keep Henry from getting back on his feet until Henry became determined to get out from under the probation officer’s power. The result—Henry decided to pay off his court fines as quickly as possible, and he did that through a series of bank robberies. Without giving away everything that happened to Henry, the end result was he was caught and went to prison. While Henry’s life to that point might seem somewhat sensational to readers, what happened next is remarkable. Henry determined that this time, he would take control of his life by making better decisions. With Unleashing Your Own Potential, Henry has turned his story into a teaching tool. Each chapter begins with a segment of his personal story, followed by a discussion of how that story applies to important lessons we all need to learn. One of the biggest of those lessons is how to make better decisions. Henry states, “To make better decisions, we must train ourselves to engage our rational system more often. That means slowing down and being more intentional about our choices. By evaluating our options and considering our decisions’ potential consequences, we can make more informed choices that are more likely to lead to our desired outcomes.” Henry had failed to make an informed choice when he became a bank robber, but he has made such choices ever since. The result has been a life of prosperity in real estate and coaching others on how to succeed in business and life. Henry does not lecture the reader but offers simple but effective techniques we can use to apply the lessons learned to our lives. For example, in making decisions about your future, he recommends using the 10/10/10 rule. This technique involves considering how you will feel about your decision in ten minutes, ten months, and ten years. By thinking about the future, we put the decision in a better perspective and then can make a better decision. Henry uses powerful and inspirational quotes throughout the book: “It’s not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you,” from Zig Ziglar. Henry did not handle well some of the adversity he faced, but going to prison changed his ability to make better decisions about how to handle difficult situations. He states, “The key to achieving optimal decision-making lies in self-awareness, critical thinking, and emotional intelligence.” He discusses all three of these decision-making influences in detail. Ultimately, everything in life revolves around the decisions we make and how we decide to handle situations. Henry discusses how to avoid negative thought patterns so we aren’t trapped by them. He encourages us to reach out to others to build a support network. He recommends developing a clear sense of purpose so that we don’t lose sight of our goals when adversity strikes. He helps us learn how to overcome fear and refuse to be a victim of circumstances by realizing what part of our circumstances we can control. Henry knows from personal experience that learning these lessons and making these changes is not easy. He states: “It was a challenging process. I had to confront some hard truths about myself and my past. But I knew it was the only way to move forward and create something positive from this experience.” He discusses how he used his time in prison as an opportunity to grow and change, to read more than 700 books on personal growth and development, and to begin the journey that ultimately led him from prison to prosperity by taking 100 percent responsibility for his life. The results Henry achieved are beyond impressive. Best of all, the road to those results is practical. No matter your adversities, Henry offers advice to help you discover and unleash your potential.
Have 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.
