Revolutionary Meetings (eBook)

How To Make Your Meetings Better When You're Not In Charge

Rona Roberts (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
126 Seiten
Distributed By Ingram Spark (Verlag)
978-0-9831321-0-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Monday morning meetings make you want to rebel? You should! You'll spend between four and sixteen years of your life in meetings. You may as well take ownership and make your meetings matter! Revolutionary Meetings offers you 100+ ways to take charge: *; 10 ways to set up your meeting for success—in the five minutes before it starts *; 9 practical moves for the first five minutes AFTER your meeting begins *; 9 even more important things to say if leaders miss necessary steps *; 5 follow-up actions anyone can take to keep meetings from covering the same old sad and sorry ground, over and over and over and. . . *; 50+ precise ways to say, "Here's my idea," "I see that differently," and "Let's decide now' *; 7 concise checklists to guide meeting improvement *; 4 powerful meeting features examined in depth *; 5 special meeting formats that keep work freshRevolutionary Meetings highlights manageable meeting "moves" in exact language that will work for you. Speak up for change and make the minutes, hours and years you spend in meetings matter.';This is a book I wish I'd read much earlier in my career, because it would have helped me advance more quickly. Now I'm thrilled to recommend it to everyone who asks my team what they can do about their boss's lousy meetings.' — Elise Keith, founder, Lucid Meetings

Inhalt

Revolutionary Meetings

Contents

Why I Wrote This Book ........................................................................ vi

Introducing Revolutionary Meetings ...................................................... 1

The Four Parts of This Book.................................................................. 4

Part 1: The Five Change Points .............................................................. 5

     Change Point 1: Get Ready! .............................................................. 7

     Change Point 2: Get Set! The First Five Minutes ................................ 12

     Change Point 3: Go! The Meeting’s Core Work Zone .......................... 19

     Change Point 4: Finish! The Final Five Minutes .................................. 41

     Change Point 5: Follow Through Between Meetings! ......................... 48

Part 2: Checklists ............................................................................... 53

Part 3: Special Meeting Formats .......................................................... 65

     Online Meetings ............................................................................ 66

     Open Space Technology, or Open Space Meetings ............................. 69

     Dialogue ....................................................................................... 71

     Play, or Deep Fun .......................................................................... 74

     Appreciative Inquiry ...................................................................... 77

Part 4: Go Deeper: Four Aspects of Meetings that Reward Learning and Investment           78

Deepen Welcome and Hospitality ........................................................ 79

     Invest Heavily in Two Important Types of Meeting Agreements .......... 82

     Go Deeper to Build Consensus Decision Making Skills ........................ 91

     Go Deep to Benefit from Differences .............................................. 104

Join the Ongoing Learning About Revolutionary Meetings .................... 107

Acknowledgments ........................................................................... 108

Bibliography .................................................................................... 110

Index .............................................................................................. 113

About the Author ............................................................................ 116

 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.4.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
• Schlagworte: democratic meetings • democratic meeting tools • Effective Meetings • finish meetings strong • fix my meetings • good meetings • lead from any chair • meeting members • meeting participants • meet well • revolutionary meetings • start meetings strong
• ISBN-10: 0-9831321-0-0 / 0983132100
• ISBN-13: 978-0-9831321-0-3 / 9780983132103