Download or read book Successful Meetings written by Shri L. Henkel and published by Atlantic Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study by MCI found that most professionals believe that over 50 percent of meeting time is wasted. More than 90 percent admit to daydreaming in meetings, 73 percent have brought other work, and 39 percent have fallen asleep. You might think that there would be fewer meetings. However, in the survey 46 percent said they attended more meetings than a year ago. Meetings cost time and money. Many meetings end with no results or outcome. How can you be sure you are using your time and money effectively? The answer: with proper training. Even MBA graduates have never had a course in how to plan, organize, and present an effective meeting. That is the subject of this new book which will teach the proper skills and training to get great results with every meeting, every time! You will learn the checklists for planning your meeting, setting the agenda, strategic planning, how the physical setting can be improved, how to properly open a meeting, handling difficult people and maintaining control, how to assess and evaluate your meetings, and the correct method to end a meeting. Good meetings don't just happen, they are planned and created. Atlantic Publishing is a small, independent publishing company based in Ocala, Florida. Founded over twenty years ago in the company presidentâe(tm)s garage, Atlantic Publishing has grown to become a renowned resource for non-fiction books. Today, over 450 titles are in print covering subjects such as small business, healthy living, management, finance, careers, and real estate. Atlantic Publishing prides itself on producing award winning, high-quality manuals that give readers up-to-date, pertinent information, real-world examples, and case studies with expert advice. Every book has resources, contact information, and web sites of the products or companies discussed.

Download or read book How to Run a Meeting written by Antony Jay and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2009-06-08 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes for a great meeting? As a leader, how can you keep discussions on point and productive? In How to Run a Meeting, Antony Jay argues that too many leaders fail to plan adequately for meetings. In this bestselling article, he defines the characteristics that contribute to success, from keeping formal minutes to acknowledging junior staff first. These guidelines will help you get demonstrably better results from every meeting you run. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.

Download or read book Death by Meeting written by Patrick M. Lencioni and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A straightforward framework for creating engaging and exciting business meetings Casey McDaniel had never been so nervous in his life. In just ten minutes, The Meeting, as it would forever be known, would begin. Casey had every reason to believe that his performance over the next two hours would determine the fate of his career, his financial future, and the company he had built from scratch. “How could my life have unraveled so quickly?” he wondered. In his latest page-turning work of business fiction, best-selling author Patrick Lencioni provides readers with another powerful and thought-provoking book, this one centered around a cure for the most painful yet underestimated problem of modern business: bad meetings. And what he suggests is both simple and revolutionary. Casey McDaniel, the founder and CEO of Yip Software, is in the midst of a problem he created, but one he doesn’t know how to solve. And he doesn’t know where or who to turn to for advice. His staff can’t help him; they’re as dumbfounded as he is by their tortuous meetings. Then an unlikely advisor, Will Peterson, enters Casey’s world. When he proposes an unconventional, even radical, approach to solving the meeting problem, Casey is just desperate enough to listen. As in his other books, Lencioni provides a framework for his groundbreaking model, and makes it applicable to the real world. Death by Meeting is nothing short of a blueprint for leaders who want to eliminate waste and frustration among their teams and create environments of engagement and passion.

Download or read book The Surprising Science of Meetings written by Steven G. Rogelberg and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 minutes -- Agendas are a hollow crutch -- The bigger, the badder -- Don't get too comfortable in that chair -- Deflate negative energy from the start -- No more talking! -- The folly of the remote call-in meeting -- Putting it all together -- Epilogue: trying to get ahead of the science' using science -- Tool: meeting quality self-assessment -- Tool: sample engagement survey and 360 feedback questions on meetings -- Tool: good meeting facilitation checklist -- Tool: huddle implementation checklist -- Tool: agenda template -- Tool: guide to taking good meeting minutes/notes -- Tool: expectations assessment -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Index

Download or read book Making Meetings Work written by John E Tropman and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2003-01-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A best-seller in its first edition, Making Meetings Work: Achieving High Quality Group Decisions, Second Edition covers everything you need to know about organizing engaging meetings, including preparing agendas, controlling what happens behind the scenes prior to and after meetings, and managing conflicting values and personalities. Through the Meeting Masters Research Project at the University of Michigan, author John E. Tropman observed and interviewed the nation′s most successful meeting experts to find out how to make meetings both stimulating and productive. Based on his findings, Tropman formulated seven principles and fourteen commandments for implementing dynamic meetings. This second edition has been extensively revised and expanded to include Family meetings and family group decision making Problems and solutions for board of directors meetings Community and civic meetings Volunteers and meetings Leadership in community decision making Making Meetings Work: Achieving High Quality Group Decisions, Second Edition provides simple, easily applied best practices for supervising or instigating meetings with decision accomplishment outcomes. Author John E. Tropman reveals goal oriented procedures that keep proposals moving towards quality group decision making and assure other participants look forward to attending your meetings. Written with humor and a deep understanding of the realities of business and political life, Making Meetings Work: Achieving High Quality Group Decisions, Second Edition is an extraordinary resource for anyone who leads, facilitates, or attends meetings.

Download or read book The Discourse of Business Meetings written by Fatma M. AlHaidari and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the social organizational discourse of task-oriented business meetings in a Kuwaiti financial organization and an American non-profit trade organisation. Focusing primarily on the linguistic behaviours demonstrating agency and power of managers and staff members displayed during these meetings, the project is based on ethnographic data collected during eight months of fieldwork. The author examines the similarities and differences between the linguistic behaviours of both organizations, particularly relating to the production of collective “we,” “us,” and “our” utterances and directive speech acts issued to explore how managers and co-workers perform agency and power in meetings. This distinctive book will shed light into the influence of language on the actions and relationships of managers and co-workers in business meetings, and will be of interest to applied linguists and discourse analysts in the field of business discourse in addition to business professionals in management and finance.

Download or read book The Language of Business Meetings written by Michael Handford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a corpus-based study of the language used in business meetings.

Download or read book The Language of Business Meetings written by Michael Handford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative volume presents an in-depth study of the language used by participants in business meetings. The cutting-edge research draws on the Cambridge and Nottingham Business English Corpus (CANBEC), a unique resource which brings together meetings of different types both within and between companies, involving speakers whose roles and responsibilities vary, and who represent a range of nationalities and first languages. Keywords, concordance lines and discourse analysis provide thorough insights into aspects such as the structural stages of meetings, participants' discursive practices, interpersonal language and creativity, and power and constraint. The author concludes by making practical suggestions for using these findings to inform the teaching of business English.

Download or read book Discursive Strategies in Multicultural Business Meetings written by Gina Poncini and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Association for Business Communication Award for Distinguished Publication on Business Communication. This book explores multiparty, multicultural interaction at international business meetings. It investigates discourse at an Italian company's meetings of its international distributors, conducted mainly in English and attended by participants from different countries in Europe, Asia and North America. Data come from audio recordings of the meetings, normally lasting two to three days, and are supplemented by the author's observations of the meetings. The study uses a series of approaches to analyze selected linguistic and interactional features, presenting an in-depth analysis and discussion of data extracts that draws on both qualitative and quantitative approaches. It highlights the way the main company speaker and some of the multilingual participants use discursive strategies to build common ground, to construct a cooperative business relationship or to negotiate or avert conflict. The study questions the role of cultural differences in approaching multicultural, multilingual meetings and argues that organizational roles, the business context and individual differences must also be considered.

Download or read book Minutes of the Business Meetings and Hearings of the Committee on Agriculture House of Representatives pursuant to Committee Rule IVf written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 2076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Meetings Suck written by Cameron Herold and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You hear it all the time. It's the one thing that almost everyone in business can agree on. Except it's not actually true. Meetings don't suck--we suck at running meetings. When done right, meetings not only work, they make people and companies better. In Meetings Suck, world renowned business expert and growth guru Cameron Herold teaches you how to use focused, time effective meetings to help you and your company soar. This book shows you immediately actionable, step-by-step systems that ensures that you and everyone in your organization improves your meetings, right away. In the process, you'll turn meetings that suck into meetings that work."--Page [4] of cover.

Download or read book No More Pointless Meetings written by Martin Murphy and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wasting time in pointless meetings....It's the bane of work life-and the one thing that never seems to change. But meetings can be highly effective, says Martin Murphy, who has helped a "Who's Who" of corporate clients transform timesapping meetings into "breakthrough sessions" that are truly productive. His strategy is not simply to speed them up or make them more palatable with flashier facilitation. Rather, the key is to upend the entire concept of meetings. That means throwing out traditional protocols and using one of four new collaboration models to get more done, faster than ever before. These sessions address: Issues management: identify, rank, and resolve issues-promoting critical concerns to Action Plan status * Problem solving: thirty-minute sessions for solving complex problems * Innovation: discover the billion-dollar idea that lurks in every organization * Strategic planning: stripped-down protocols for the kind of ongoing, realtime planning required in today's fast-paced economy In an era when innovation and speed-to-market rule, No More Pointless Meetings leverages the creativity and knowledge of an organization's people-a potent resource that conventional meetings ignore.

Download or read book Breakthrough Business Meetings Shared Leadership in Action written by Robert E. Levasseur and published by Mindfire Press. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breakthrough Business meetings is the guide to meeting excellence in the 21st century. Professor Edgar Schein of MIT's Sloan School of Management says, "Breakthrough Business Meetings is one of the most theoretically sound yet totally practical books on meetings and group management that I have ever read."

Download or read book Nathan s Company Meetings Including Rules of Order written by Hartley R. Nathan and published by CCH Canadian Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Company Meetings written by Leslie Kosmin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is an up-to-date and informative guide to the law on company meetings in the light of the changes introduced by the Company Law Reform Bill.

Download or read book Mastering Meetings written by Jeannine Drew and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1994 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "They are, more often than not, an utter waste of time. They're usually boring beyond endurance. They can drag on forever. Nothing ever seems to get accomplished, decided, or solved. No one, including you, really wants to attend them. And the next one is scheduled for 10 a.m. tomorrow..." "If this describes your company's meetings as accurately as it describes most business meetings, help is at hand! Here's the ultimate guide to ending the time and productivity drain of inefficient meetings and replacing them with well-planned, dynamic, and productive ones that include today's newest and most exciting multimedia presentations." "Written by 3M's winning team of meeting management experts - considered the best in the business at helping companies prioritize and streamline business meetings - Mastering Meetings will save you time, expense, and redundancy by providing answers to such questions as: Is this meeting really necessary? Who should attend? When and where should the meeting be held? How long should the meeting be? What is the best room arrangement? How can you most effectively present your ideas to the group?" "Full coverage also is given to the latest techniques and equipment for creating dynamic multimedia presentations, as well as inexpensive, high-impact visuals - charts, tables, graphs, and more - using PCs, plain paper copiers, and infrared transparencies. You'll learn what makes a good visual and how to use visuals to get messages across lucidly and emphatically." "In addition, you'll learn how to change the meeting room from a battle arena to a workshop; develop participation skills in all your employees; conduct multilingual meetings; develop and deliver powerful presentations; understand meeting dynamics, and make them work for you rather than against you; and much more!"--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Download or read book Robert s Rules of Order Newly Revised 12th edition written by Henry M. Robert III and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only current authorized edition of the classic work on parliamentary procedure--now in a new updated edition Robert's Rules of Order is the recognized guide to smooth, orderly, and fairly conducted meetings. This 12th edition is the only current manual to have been maintained and updated since 1876 under the continuing program established by General Henry M. Robert himself. As indispensable now as the original edition was more than a century ago, Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised is the acknowledged "gold standard" for meeting rules. New and enhanced features of this edition include: Section-based paragraph numbering to facilitate cross-references and e-book compatibility Expanded appendix of charts, tables, and lists Helpful summary explanations about postponing a motion, reconsidering a vote, making and enforcing points of order and appeals, and newly expanded procedures for filling blanks New provisions regarding debate on nominations, reopening nominations, and completing an election after its scheduled time Dozens more clarifications, additions, and refinements to improve the presentation of existing rules, incorporate new interpretations, and address common inquiries Coinciding with publication of the 12th edition, the authors of this manual have once again published an updated (3rd) edition of Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised In Brief, a simple and concise introductory guide cross-referenced to it.