MEETING EXCELLENCE:
33 Tools To Lead Meetings That Get Results
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"Parker and Hoffman have delivered a long-overdue guide to one of the most troubling events in organizational life---the meeting. They have captured the essense of the meeting and then guide the reader on a journey to meeting excellence by providing tools, tips and techniques that take us well beyond anything done so far. I highly recommend this book to every leader at every level in every organization "
--Dick Kropp, Vice President, Human Resources, Cape Code Healthcare
Meeting Excellence is a comprehensive resource that provides a wide range of ready-to-use tools that have been developed abd tested in a meeting initiative within Novartis Pharmaceuticals. It is based on research that included observing team meetings, examinining existing documents and conducting a large number of intensive interviews in the U.S. and Europe. It provides informationa and tools to prepare, facilitate and follow-up on all your meetings.
Specifically, Meeting Excellence includes practical tools, advice and templates that show you how to:
- Create an action agenda
- Ensure everyone participates in discussions
- Deal with disruptive meeting participants
- Create and deliver effective meeting presentations
- Stay on track to achieve your meeting goals
- Achive clear communication in a multicultural meeting
- Liven up a dreary meeting with some cool fun stuff
- Evaluate your meeting quickly and effectively
- Choose among various web-based meeting tools
- Close your meeting on an upbest and positive note
A Resources section includes a summary of web-based tools, a self-test for meeting participants, 10 problem situations, a 25 question test on meeting excellence and an annotated bibliography of books, articles, videos and web sites.
216 pages, hardcover book, Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2006. Order from Amazon
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