Meetings That Get Results: A Facilitator's Guide to Building Better Meetings

Product Description
This practical, comprehensive guide to designing and running more effective meetings will result in less time wasted, more collaborative decision-making, and measurably improved business outcomes. \nThere’s nothing more frustrating than an unproductive meeting—except when it leads to another unproductive meeting. Yet every day millions of people conduct meetings—in person or online—without the critical understanding or formal training on how to plan and lead them effectively. This book offers a structured method to ensure that meetings will produce clear and actionable results. Meetings that are profitable and productive ultimately lead to fewer meetings. This book offers leaders a significant edge by • Empowering readers to help their groups create, innovate, and break through the barriers of miscommunication, politics, and intolerance • Making it easier for them to help others forge consensus and shared understanding • Providing them with proven agenda steps, tools, and detailed procedures
Readers will learn how to resolve or manage common problems, inspire creativity, and transfer ownership to their meeting participants while managing interpersonal conflicts and other disruptions that arise. In a world of back-to-back meetings, this book explains the how-to details behind game-changing tools and techniques.
Review
“In our disrupted world, the need for people to work efficiently and effectively together has reached a critical new level. Leaders at all levels need to not only read this book but follow it and require it of their organizations.”\n—Mark Morgan, President, StratEx Advisors, and author of Executing Your Strategy\n“A soul-searching yet practical approach to putting strategy into action. Metz’s approach is unique and a breath of fresh air.”\n—Jim Pennella, Senior Vice President, Corporate Services, Crowley\n“An essential handbook for any leader or facilitator of meetings. Especially as we have transitioned to more remote-based collaboration, I value all the tips to lead global team meetings.” \n—Sana A. Manjeshwar, Global Principal Ombuds Manager, Chevron\n“An instant classic. No matter what kind of meetings one attends or leads, using this high-powered technique will improve—even transform—those meetings from predictable, dull affairs to intensely practical and satisfying experiences.”\n—Eric Diamond, PhD, founder and Director, Gainesville Men’s Center\n“I'm devoted to understanding and optimizing meeting dynamics. This book provides clarity and insights into the concepts and techniques that deliver impactful meetings.”\n—Douglas Ferguson, President, Voltage Control, and coauthor of Magical Meetings\n“
Meetings That Get Results is a highly effective and entertaining tool for empowering teams to get things done. You’ll use it again and again.”\n—Rockwell Clancy, former Executive Director of Financial Services, J. D. Power and Associates
About the Author
Terrence Metz expertly coaches and instructs professionals on how to lead meetings that produce clear and actionable results every time.
A graduate of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, he has spent more than 20,000 hours teaching the facilitation of planning, prioritizing, and problem-solving. He has taught professors at the Broad Institute (MIT and Harvard), Duke, University of Maryland, Purdue, Stanford, University of North Carolina, and many other universities—along with many of their best students.­