On Track: Taking Meetings from Good to Great

Best-selling author and teamwork consultant Leslie Bendaly knows what it takes to build high-performance teams and in On Track she provides you with dozens of proven tips and techniques that will ensure your meetings – those many and crucial hours you spend in discussions with your colleagues – pay off in results.

Bendaly covers it all – from explaining the basics of meeting design, preparation and facilitation to showing you how to overcome the most common but tough challenges of facilitating a meeting including:
· Getting full participation and creating group energy · Sparking creative thinking and opening minds to others’ ideas · Managing conflict and dealing with difficult behaviors · Dealing with senior people in your meetings · Making decisions and bringing a group to consensus · Leading a meeting while participating as a team member · Getting members to share responsibility for the meeting’s success AND everything in between.

Also included is Bendaly’s Meeting Map (considered a “must have” by everyone who tries it) to lead you step-by-step through the critical steps necessary in leading a successful meeting.

Whether you are a designated team leader or asked occasionally to lead or chair a meeting, On Track will help you and your colleagues achieve exceptional results in record time. Become a dynamic and effective meeting facilitator and have people leaving your meetings saying, “That was a great meeting. We really got results!”

Speaker, trainer and best-selling author, Leslie Bendaly is recognized internationally as an authority in the fields of teamwork and organizational and personal change. The tools and methods she has developed have been adopted by hundreds of organizations as critical pieces in their development processes. Her books have been selected as mandatory reading in MBA and other post-graduate programs and as handbooks for leaders in many organizations. Other books include the best-selling Strength in Numbers, Games Teams Play, More Games Teams Play, Organization 2000, Winner Instinct, Brain Teasers for Team Leaders and The Facilitation Skills Training Kit. She is based in Toronto.
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