Stop the Meeting: I Want to Get Off!
How to Eliminate Endless Meetings While Improving
Your Team's Communication, Productivity, and Effectiveness
by Scott Snair
Less talk, more action: A guide to better communication, heightened
productivity, and fewer meetings!
Meetings are the bane of modern corporate culture. Today's managers
spend between 25 percent and 75 percent of their workday in meetings,
at least half of which are unproductive, if not downright destructive.
In a book that is sure to be warmly embraced by beleaguered managers,
a decorated Desert Storm platoon leader turned corporate manager and
consultant offers managers a proven system for running a department,
or an entire enterprise, without unnecessary meetings.
With advice from innovative managers at Sears, GE, Johnson & Johnson,
NTP Software, Verizon, and other companies, the one-on-one management
methods outlined in this book:
* Improve a manager's ability to gather input
* Streamline the communication process
* Make influencing key members of an organization much easier
* Increase productivity, without stifling openness and job satisfaction
* Make managers more "hands-on" by using responsibility as
a reward
Retreats That Work:
Designing and Conducting
Effective Offsites for Groups and Organizations
by Sheila Campbell and Merianne Liteman
Whether you're an executive who wants to hold a retreat or a facilitator
who will design and lead it, Retreats That Work is a comprehensive handbook
for creating offsites that get results and rave reviews from participants.
Retreats That Work is a practical, easy-to-use guide, full of step-by-step
instructions for leading a wide variety of tested exercises. You'll
learn how to design and facilitate retreats that will keep participants
energized and on-task. Campbell and Liteman know what can go wrong at
a retreat and what to do about it. They know how to turn difficult situations
around and how to deal effectively with conflict, difficult participants,
and resistance to change. With Retreats That Work, you will too.
Whether you're a seasoned professional or a first-timer, Retreats That
Work is required reading, destined for a life of dog ears and highlighted
passages, as you turn to it again and again for its valuable insight
and advice.
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
by Edward Tufte
The first edition of Tufte's now classic text on the design of statistical
graphics was published in 1983. Tufte published it himself with the
help of a second mortgage in order to have complete control over the
book's design, which he wanted to reflect the intellectual principles
put forth in its contents. That edition saw 17 reprintings. This second
edition provides high-resolution color reproduction of William Playfair's
many graphics, adds color to other images, and includes all the changes
and corrections accumulated since the first edition publication.
The
Manager's Guide To Effective Meetings
by Beverly Scott
All
managers, whether brand new to their positions or well established in
the corporate heirarchy, can use a little "brushing up" now
and then. The skills-based Briefcase Books series is filled with ideas
and strategies to help managers become more capable, efficient, effective,
and valuable to their corporations.
The Manager's Guide to Effective Meetings is a hands-on guide to planning
and conducting meetings that fellow professionals will want to attend.
It provides techniques for keeping a meeting focused and on target,
reveals latest tools for meeting "virtually," and more. This
latest addition to the popular Briefcase Books series will prove invaluable
to anyone who has to plan or conduct meetings, in any environment.
In
Even a Geek Can Speak, Joey Asher, president of a nationally recognized
communications training firm, reveals his proven foolproof formula for
organizing any high-tech business presentation. Including sections on
defining your goals, eliminating jargon, and enlivening your stage presence,
and employing dozens of entertaining real-life examples, this book will
help managers, entrepreneurs, and all types of tech "geeks"
lift themselves above the crowd.
Visualization, Presentation, Moderation:
A Practical Guide to Successful Presentation and the
Facilitation of Business Processes
by Josef W. Seifer
Visualization, presentation, and moderation - it is impossible to imagine
modern organizations without these working methods. Anyone who has mastered
them can:
- successfully visualize facts
- properly prepare and confidently give presentations
- organize meetings more effectively
- moderate employee/continuous improvement process groups in a result-oriented
manner
- successfully lead workshops and team-training sessions
In this three-part book the author has collected together a wealth of
rules, tips, and ideas for the closely related areas of visualization,
presentation, and moderation, all of which can immediately be put into
practice. For lectures, discussions, workshops, and meetings this volume
is a working basis, a handbook, and also a compact reference work.
