Download or read book Beyond Meetings written by Cindy Kane and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover compassionate, real-life lessons learned from 31 fellow Student Club/Org Advisors from around the country to help you not just to survive the rough spots, but to thrive as an advisor!
Download or read book Beyond Public Meetings written by Vivien Twyford and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is full of common sense approaches to community engagement. It presents a combination of practical experience and expert knowledge. It provides a user-friendly entree into 'why should we engage?,' 'how can we engage?' and 'when do we engage?' and shines a light on how we might do this in a more meaningful and sustainable way.
Download or read book Beyond Planar Graphs written by Seok-Hee Hong and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first general and extensive review on the algorithmics and mathematical results of beyond planar graphs. Most real-world data sets are relational and can be modelled as graphs consisting of vertices and edges. Planar graphs are fundamental for both graph theory and graph algorithms and are extensively studied. Structural properties and fundamental algorithms for planar graphs have been discovered. However, most real-world graphs, such as social networks and biological networks, are non-planar. To analyze and visualize such real-world networks, it is necessary to solve fundamental mathematical and algorithmic research questions on sparse non-planar graphs, called beyond planar graphs.This book is based on the National Institute of Informatics (NII) Shonan Meeting on algorithmics on beyond planar graphs held in Japan in November, 2016. The book consists of 13 chapters that represent recent advances in various areas of beyond planar graph research. The main aims and objectives of this book include 1) to timely provide a state-of-the-art survey and a bibliography on beyond planar graphs; 2) to set the research agenda on beyond planar graphs by identifying fundamental research questions and new research directions; and 3) to foster cross-disciplinary research collaboration between computer science (graph drawing and computational geometry) and mathematics (graph theory and combinatorics). New algorithms for beyond planar graphs will be in high demand by practitioners in various application domains to solve complex visualization problems. This book therefore will be a valuable resource for researchers in graph theory, algorithms, and theoretical computer science, and will stimulate further deep scientific investigations into many areas of beyond planar graphs.
Download or read book Making Meetings Work written by John E Tropman and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide to getting the most out of meetings, this book covers: agenda preparation, what happens behind the scenes prior to and after meetings, and managing conflicting values and personalities. Features include: - best practices for meetings with decision accomplishment outcomes - techniques for meetings others look forward to attending - seven principles and 14 commandments from experts
Download or read book Online Meetings that Matter written by Pilar Orti and published by Virtual not Distant. This book was released on with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As 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.
Download or read book Meetings That Get Results written by Terrence Metz and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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.
Download or read book Beyond Virtual Meetings written by Martin Duffy and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-13 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you now cruising the cyberspace with remote work and online meetings as a default mode of collaboration these days? Then you shouldn't be surprised to see that you can stay an equally productive organization and conduct business almost as usual. We live in exciting times. Thanks to the Digital Revolution we are fortunate to have reached a stage in our civilization where nothing prevents high-quality decision-making in teams regardless of physical presence. Today, you can be equally effective at working online. This book proposes that virtual meetings can become a regular part of the organizational collaborative flows, where simple tools such as Zoom, Teams, WebEx, GoToMeeting, are part of daily support for ad-hoc collaboration, along with collaborative web-based tools and other group decision-support technology that provides a unique opportunity for engaging your valued customers as well as your workforce in a participative planning process that is required for successfully managing innovation and change. While there are many ways to work remotely in our newly emerging world, this book offers an insightful and useful guide for how to do that in the most effective way possible. I was lucky to have found four digital collaboration druids - Elise Keith, Ilkka Mäkitalo, Jeremy Lu, and Kelvin McGrath - whom I have convinced to contribute a chapter each. I was even luckier to have found a twin soul in what concerns the art and science of meetings, a colleague consultant and PhD researcher - Martin Duffy - without whom this book would have not been possible. Last but not least, the guest preface next by Maarten Vanneste, the founder of Meeting Architecture as a discipline and a permanent source of inspiration in these book series. This book caters equally for any of these 3 groups of readers, albeit with different levels of relevance and importance:1) If you are a meeting professional, you should definitively read it as your clients will be perceiving you as a source of improvement of their meetings and you might want to learn more about them in order to enrich your professional offer. 2) If you are an executive or team leader you may find some of these tools too advanced for your current needs or maybe not. The latter would be the case if your company is already in an advanced digital stage and doing business in a heavily competing environment. These tools can provide you with a sustainable advantage in the way your company runs meetings. 3) Finally, if you are a learner or influencer, you may find that AI-powered technology is going to make serious inroads in the world of adult learning and group facilitation, and you might as well be conscious of their impact by reading this book. As Maarten Vanneste, the founder of Meeting Architecture as a discipline and a permanent source of inspiration in these book series says in the preface: "This book will give you several ideas that can make such real interaction, conversations and collaborations reality."
Download or read book Make Virtual Meetings Matter written by Paul Axtell and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Non Obvious Guide to Magical Meetings Reinvent How Your Team Works Together written by Douglas Ferguson and published by IdeaPress Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reinvent how your team works together"--Cover.
Download or read book Make Meetings Matter written by Paul Axtell and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Architecting Collaboration written by Paul Nunesdea and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a collaboration architect without even knowing? When you think of yourself as a collaboration architect, you can start to apply a range of methods, digital tools, and facilitation techniques to accomplish your goals. This book is made from a compilation of my +50 LinkedIn articles about meetings, workshops, group facilitation, and my invented notion of a 'collaboration architect'. In fact, you do not really need to purchase it because all its content is published and freely available online on LinkedIn and in my blog. Every successful product is the fruit of hard work, and this also applies to books. Yet, in this case, all the work is already done and nothing is left undone, as Lao Tzu once said. I have collected and curated the articles that I consider valuable, regardless of the time of publication and organized a chapter structure under several sections that you might find useful to your purpose as a reader. As an IAF (TM) Certified Professional Facilitator, I am aware that every meeting we design is a touch point for anyone to experience an engaging moment in their lives with a tangible outcome that you can measure. The same goes when writing about the professional and organizational roles of a collaboration architect. Yet, this one is not a book about group facilitation, and you should be warned about this from the start. However, you may find some examples of the IAF core competencies reflected in this collection of articles. For this reason, I decided to map the IAF Competencies in the chapters' content as way to provide some sort of guidance to you as a reader, and better decide which ones to read and which to skip. As always happens in any facilitated process, as a participant you are in charge. I do hope you enjoy reading my articles organized in this collection as a book that is yours to keep.
Download or read book Managing Meetings in Organizations written by Annika L. Meinecke and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groups and teams are the backbone of most organizations. Employees come together to pool their efforts, join forces, develop creative ideas, and make decisions in one key social context: the workplace meeting. This volume presents novel perspectives and state-of-the art research insights into the management of team meetings in the workplace.
Download or read book Beyond Madagascar written by Conrad Braaten and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-08-22 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Madagascar is the true story of the remarkable life journey of a missionary's son born and raised in Madagascar in the late 1920s. Alone, at age 15, he sailed on a freighter to America to continue his studies. The foundation of the world he knew as a child, carried him beyond Madagascar and into a world of adventure. His story is the stuff dreams are woven from: international travel, jungle experiences, safaris with his father, boarding school antics, military service, Counter Intelligence Corps and eventually global mission outreach. He was in the Army for ten years and after becoming a pastor, was involved in various aspects of Christian ministry for over 30 years. His book is filled with humor and compassion, colorful antics and deep pain, all the while conveying a message of hope as he was guided by God's constant presence. His story reminds us that God is always there, waiting, listening and ready to be a part of our life's journey
Download or read book RECOVERY 2 0 written by Tommy Rosen and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The feeling was electric-energy humming through my body. I felt like blood was pouring into areas of my tissues that it had not been able to reach for some time. It was relieving and healing, subtler than the feeling from getting off on drugs, but it was detectable and lovely, and of course, there was no hangover, just a feeling of more ease than I could remember. I felt a warmth come over me similar to what I felt when I had done heroin, but far from the darkness of that insanity, this was pure light-a way through." - Tommy Rosen, on his first yoga experience Most of us deal with addiction in some form. While you may not be a fall-down drunk, anorexic, or a gambling addict, you likely struggle with addiction in other ways. Workaholism, overeating, and compulsively engaging with technology like video games, texting, and Facebook are also highly common examples. And if you don't suffer from addiction, chances are you know someone who does. Through more than 20 years of recovery and in working professionally with others, Tommy Rosen has uncovered core elements of recovery and healing, what he refers to as Recovery 2.0. In the book, he shares his own past struggles with addiction, and powerful, tested tools for breaking free from the obstacles that stand in the way of a holistic and lasting recovery. Building off the key tenets of the 12-Step program, he has developed an innovative approach that includes • Looking at the roots of addiction; your family history and "Addiction Story" • Daily breathing practices, meditation, yoga, and body awareness • A healthy, alkaline-based diet to aid with detox, boost immunity, increase vitality, support your entire recovery, and help prevent relapse • Discovering your mission, living on purpose, and being of service to others Recovery 2.0 will help readers not only release their addictions, but thrive in their recovery.
Download or read book Beyond Collaboration Overload written by Rob Cross and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named the Best Management Book of 2021 by strategy+business Named one of "this month's top titles" in the Financial Times in September 2021 Named to the longlist for the 2021 Outstanding Works of Literature (OWL) Award in the Management & Culture category A plan for conquering collaborative overload to drive performance and innovation, reduce burnout, and enhance well-being. Most organizations have created always-on work contexts that are burning people out and hurting performance rather than delivering productivity, innovation and engagement. Collaborative work consumes 85% of employees' time and is drifting earlier into the morning, later into the night, and deeper into the weekend. The dilemma is that we all need to collaborate more to create effective organizations and vibrant careers for ourselves. But conventional wisdom on teamwork and collaboration has created too much of the wrong kind of collaboration, which hurts our performance, health and overall well-being. In Beyond Collaboration Overload, Babson professor Rob Cross solves this paradox by showing how top performers who thrive at work collaborate in a more purposeful way that makes them 18-24% more efficient than their peers. Good collaborators are distinguished by the efficiency and intentionality of their collaboration—not the size of their network or the length of their workday. Through landmark research with more than 300 organizations, in-depth stories, and tools, Beyond Collaboration Overload will coach you to reclaim close to a day a week when you: Identify and challenge beliefs that lead you to collaborate too quickly Impose structure in your work to prevent unproductive collaboration Alter behaviors to create more efficient collaboration It then outlines how successful people invest this reclaimed time to: Cultivate a broad network—not a big one—for innovation and scale Energize others—a strong predictor of high performance Connect with others to reduce micro-stressors and enhance physical and mental well-being Cross' framework provides relief from the definitive problem of our age—dysfunctional collaboration at the expense of our performance, health and overall well-being.
Download or read book Strange Events Beyond Human Understanding written by Sandor Robert Tralins and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Visual Meetings written by David Sibbet and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-08-26 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use eye-popping visual tools to energize your people! Just as social networking has reclaimed the Internet for human interactivity and co-creation, the visual meetings movement is reclaiming creativity, productivity, and playful exchange for serious work in groups. 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 dynamic and richly illustrated resource gives meeting leaders, presenters, and consultants a slew of exciting tricks and tools, including Graphic recording, visual planning, story boarding, graphic templates, idea mapping, etc. Creative ways to energize team building, sales presentations, staff meetings, strategy sessions, brainstorming, and more Getting beyond paper and whiteboards to engage new media platforms Understanding emerging visual language for leading groups Unlocking formerly untapped creative resources for business success, Visual Meetings will help you and your team communicate ideas more effectively and engagingly.
