Meetings That Get Results

A comprehensive guide to designing and running meetings that use time effectively, encourage collaboration, and yield measurably improved outcomes.  There’s nothing more frustrating than an unproductive meeting—except when it leads to another unproductive meeting. This book offers a structured method to ensure that meetings will produce clear and actionable results, whether they occur in person or online. Best of all, these productive and profitable meetings will ultimately lead to fewer meetings.  Management expert Terrence Metz shares 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 handle common problems, inspire creativity, and transfer ownership of meetings to their 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.