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Meetings. They keep such promises for moving your business frontward but are almost never executed well. We all really know what we're likely to do to perform meetings effectively, but we hardly ever get it done. Why? Perhaps we think it's just not worth the time to clarify that which you hope to complete, craft plans, handpick participants, issue pre-work, and distribute records with key decisions and then steps. But conference preparation and follow-up is time well put in. This guide offers tips to make your meetings easier to plan for, more enjoyable to perform - and more productive. With time, these steps will become so ingrained you won't have the ability to imagine running meetings other way. Your team - and your entire corporation - will many thanks for this. You'll learn how to:

• Determine if you need to meet
• Manage basic conference prep
• Develop a reputation for working great meetings
• Infuse new energy into meetings by detatching some seats, banning cellular devices, and reserving 20- or 50-minute slot machine games
• Orchestrate group decision making
• Prevent execution roadblocks by giving all individuals a tone of voice
• Get the most out of web - and phone - conferencing tools
• Corral chronic latecomers and calm windbags
• Make it safe to go over the elephant in the area
• Jump into the talk - with grace
• Rescue meetings from hell, even if you are not the facilitator
• Keep the momentum going with prompt conference follow-up

This collection includes:

• "How to Run a highly effective Getting together with"
• "The Key to Shorter, Better Meetings"
• "Why We Secretly Love Meetings"
• "Give Your Standing up Meetings a Makeover"
• "Extreme Methods to Shorten and Reduce Meetings"
• "The 50-Minute Getting together with"
• "How to Get People to Anticipate Your Meetings"
• "How to Reach Group Decisions During Meetings"
• "Tips for Getting Full Involvement in Meetings"
• "Tricks for Virtual Meetings"
• "Making Global Meetings Work"
• "When Bad Things Happen During Good Meetings"
• "How to Interject in a gathering"
• "Stuck in a gathering from Hell? Here's What to Do"

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