Chosen as the Best Business Book by the Nonfiction Book Authors, Benjamin Franklin Awards, IndiFab, and Silver Award winner with Nautilus Book Awards and the Eric Hoffer Award. While meetings have become a pain point for millions, Paul Axtell offers a different perspective: that meetings matter and they can be mastered. In Meetings Matter, Axtell redesigns meetings using the vital foundation of conversation. With real-life examples and actionable advice, he shows you how to design meetings for results, lead them to achieve agendas that move projects forward, and even allow time to build the relationships that make working together in a remarkable way possible. This book will revolutionize the meeting, moving it from a dreaded obligation to the most powerful way to get things done in business and in life. Meetings are at the heart of effective organizations. Each meeting is an opportunity to clarify issues, set direction, sharpen focus, create alignment, and move ambitions forward. We have to change the way we think about meetings, the way we design and lead them, and, most importantly, how we manage what happens between meetings. Axtell offers eight powerful strategies for fixing our meeting problems, and within each strategy, he provides concrete advice you can put into action immediately such as limiting participants, being vigilant about what gets on the agenda, designing the conversation for each agenda item, and managing the experience for everyone in the room so people leave feeling heard and appreciated. Further, he explains how meetings can be your primary way to create and maintain your network of relationships. We go to meetings. A lot of them. So let's put creating and building relationships in front of us as one of the desired outcomes. What would you do differently if you looked at each meeting as an opportunity to add to your network?

Meetings Matter: 8 Powerful Strategies for Remarkable Conversations

Business & Money

Axtell, Paul

Management & Leadership

Jackson Creek Press

Marianna's Milk

Children's Books

Davies, Eve Louise

Animals

Independently published

Meetings should matter. No one wants to be called in for a meeting that could've been an email. No one wants to sit in a meeting where everyone's distracted or talking over each other. If you're going to attend or lead a meeting, don't you want it to...well, matter? Meetings are a chance to initiate a conversation with your teammates. You can communicate information with them that wouldn't havethe same hold digitally. You can foster new relationships with your coworkers, and learn from their new ideas and perspectives. So why do so many people dread meetings? Because they're doing them all wrong. Change the way people think about meetings. Transform their opinions by holding a meeting that is efficient and productive, that is open and communicative, that is useful and important. Revolutionize the definition of a meeting. Learn to make themmatter. Paul Axtell affirms the importance of meetings, and he redesigns them using the vital foundation of conversation. With real-life examples and actionable advice, he shows you how to design meetings for results, lead them to achieve agendas that move projects forward, and even allow time for building the relationships that make working together in a remarkable way possible. Based on his award winning efficiency training, this book will revolutionize the meeting--movingit from that dreaded obligation to a powerful way to get things done in business and in life.

Make Meetings Matter: How to Turn Meetings from Status Updates to Remarkable Conversations (Ignite Reads)

Business Culture

Simple Truths

Jarrad thought he knew what he wanted for Christmas but a farm visit suddenly changes his mind!

Turkey and Tinsel

Darkness and Light Book III: Ignorance is no excuse

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Learn how to be a good boss and become the leader everyone wants to work for. People want to work for someone they respect, someone who is on their side. And when employees feel seen, heard, and valued by their supervisors, employee engagement improves, productivity increases, and the entire organization benefits. In his new motivational management book on authentic leadership, award-winning author and personal effectiveness trainer and consultant Paul Axtell reveals sixteen simple steps you can start taking right now to develop your emotional intelligence and leadership skills and become a manager who leads with compassion. This leadership development book is a quick one-hour read and is for any business leader or manager looking to improve their organizational leadership in order to lead high-performing teams that--above all else--feel trusted, respected, and motivated in their work.

Compassionate Leadership: 16 Simple Ways to Engage and Inspire Your Team at Work (Motivational Management and Personal Growth Book) (Ignite Reads)

Meetings should matter. Even and especially when those meetings are taking place online. No one wants to be called in for a meeting that could've been an email. No one wants to sit in a meeting where everyone's distracted by whatever else is happening on their screen, everyone is lost in the weeds, or people continue talking over each other. If you're going to attend or lead a meeting, don't you want it to...well, matter? An update to the original "Make Meetings Matter", this work is tailor made to help consumers get the most from every meeting--virtually! Meetings are a chance to initiate a conversationwith your teammates. Not simply check a box on an agenda. You can foster new relationships with your coworkers, and learn from their new ideas and perspectives. So why do so many people dread meetings? Because they're doing them all wrong. Change the way people think about meetings. Transform their opinions by holding a meeting that is efficient and productive, that is open and communicative, that is useful and important. Paul Axtell affirms the importance of meetings, and he redesigns them using the vital foundation of conversation. With real-life examples and actionable advice, he shows you how to design meetings for results, lead them to achieve agendas that move projects forward, and even allow time for building the relationships that make working together in a remarkable way possible. Based on his award winning efficiency training title "Make Meetings Matter" and updated for the virtual meeting experience, this book will revolutionize the meeting--moving it from that dreaded obligation to a powerful way to get things done in business and in life.

Make Virtual Meetings Matter: How to Turn Virtual Meetings from Status Updates to Remarkable Conversations (Ignite Reads)

While few things can replace in-person learning, virtual learning can create an extraordinary opportunity for students. In fact, often more immediate, flexible, and for many students growing up and learning in this virtual age, more authentic: virtual learning, when yielded properly, can create amazing results. So how can you make Virtual Learning a force for good in your child's life? From education expert Jacob Mnookin and virtual meeting expert Paul Axtell, comes a tool to ensure virtual learning at its finest. Together with our children and their teachers, we can help ensure that our kids are back on track, learning as they would be in a school building.

Make Virtual Learning Matter: How to Turn Virtual Classrooms into a Remarkable, Authentic Experience for Kids (Ignite Reads)

Education & Teaching

Mnookin, Jacob

Schools & Teaching

Old Mr. Whippy's Tail

No importa si eres un padre de familia, un maestro, un abuelo, un tío o un asesor escolar, este libro te resultará practico, centrado, y con ideas sorprendetes para la creación de relaciones extraordinarias con los niños que rodean tu vida. Diez cosas poderosas para decirle a tus hijos aumentará tus habilidades de comunicación y te permtirá expresarte adecuadamente para entablar una relación óptima con los más pequeños. Paul Axtell ha pasado veinticinco años ayudando a las personas a mejorar su eficacia personal, cambiando la forma en que se relacionan y se comunican. En este libro, aplica esa sabiduría para navegar la vida como padre, dando una nueva luz a tus conversaciones y permitiéndote hacer conexiones significativas y más profundas.   ENGLISH DESCRIPTION  From the Mc Indignación” until the fall of Ulysses, Guadalupe tells short tales of Oaxaca, which is called to continually renew itself or die, without ever forgetting its Guelaguetza and its twelve grasshoppers. A collection of stories destined to become a reference for all who love this state.

Diez cosas poderosas para decirle a tus hijos (Spanish Edition)

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

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