Many of us feel that we spend too much time in unproductive meetings when we could be getting on with some 'real' work. Well, meetings are real work and effective meetings are the springboard for great results. Brilliant Meetings gives you the tips, tools and techniques to transform all your meetings into positive experiences. It shows you how to: prepare better get more out of meetings when you're there follow up effectively to get the results you...

Welcome to Audio Learning by Assemble You. While teamwork and collaboration are essential aspects of business and professional development, surveys reveal that meetings may be the number one time-wasting activity at work. We'll look at ways to reduce the number of meetings you have, and how you can create meetings that have practical results. You will also learn to better manage the preparation prior to the meeting, and the follow-up process after...

Whether you're new to running meetings or a seasoned executive with no time to waste, leading effective (and even pleasant!) meetings is a must. Running Meetings guides you through the basics of: - Crafting a useful agenda - Inviting the right team members - Making sure everyone's voice is heard while avoiding conflict - Capturing decisions, ideas, and follow-up tasks Don't have much time? Get up to speed fast on the most essential business skills...

"Whether you're a novice or a seasoned executive with no time to spare, running effective (and even enjoyable!) meetings is a must. This book lays out a series of basics. By reading it, you'll learn how to: create an effective agenda; invite the right team members make sure everyone is on board and conflicts are avoided record decisions, ideas and follow-up tasks The HBR 20-Minute Management Series will get you up to speed quickly on the most essential...

Author Jon Petz, a former corporate executive and current corporate entertainer who has keynoted meetings for groups ranging from Wal-Mart to IBM, dares to address the boring elephant in the room: where most of the millions of meetings held in the U.S. every day are an unforgiveable waste of time and talent. What's worse, many of the books, blogs, and articles on the subject are as boring as the meetings themselves. In Boring Meetings Suck, Petz focuses...

"GTM Games creates hybrid events that are compelling and use innovative techniques like mash-ups and role reversals. It's invite only and membership based. This book will be a playbook on how to revamp and innovate with virtual events by an in-demand company making waves in this space. Julia invented Go-To-Market cross-training, and it started a movement. Professionals traded roles and lives in interactive drills vs. flat webinar panels. The NTS pyramid...

This book provides clear group leadership instructions with immediate applications to employees in any department. Regardless of the type of meeting, training session or workshop you're running, this book provides the information you need.

Hold productive meetings and events with help from Dummies It's a whole new world out there. With so many companies, big and small, electing to move to virtual or hybrid operating models, meetings have arguably become more important than ever as the primary way teams communicate day-to-day. But how do you maximize engagement when a screen sits between you and your coworkers? In Business Meeting & Event Planning For Dummies, expert author Susan Friedmann...

"Shigeo, who works for a building material manufacturing company, is sent to a regional office to improve sales, but instead ends up being overrun by local workers. He tries to actively lead in the internal meetings but ends up ignored. Shigeo runs into Mayumi, a facilitation specialist, and with her advice, Shigeo carefully learns facilitation skills. He slowly starts to win members' buy-ins, builds team motivation, and successfully leads new business...