Meetings That Get Results
A Facilitator's Guide to Building Better Meetings
Terrence Metz
- 288 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Meetings That Get Results
A Facilitator's Guide to Building Better Meetings
Terrence Metz
About This Book
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. There's nothing more frustrating than an unproductive meetingâexcept when it leads to another unproductive meeting. Yet every day millions of people conduct meetingsâin person or onlineâwithout 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 âą Empowering readers to help their groups create, innovate, and break through the barriers of miscommunication, politics, and intolerance
âą Making it easier for them to help others forge consensus and shared understanding
âą 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.
Frequently asked questions
Information
1
Serving
DISCIPLINE OF SERVANT LEADERSHIP
FEAR: F#©% Everything and Run
Information Storage | Knowledge Transfer | Leadership Technique |
Bard | Oral | Steward |
Book | Print | Manager |
Documentary | Broadcast | Executive |
Cloud | Digital | Facilitator |
- The wrong people are attending (rare).
- The right people attend but are apathetic and donât care (rarest).
- The right people care but they donât know how to conduct an effective meeting (bazinga!).
- All servant leaders are leaders, but not all leaders are servant leaders.
- â Servant leaders accept the likelihood of more than one right answer and serve others to help them find the best answer for their own situation.
- Early on I frequently use the term âservant leader,â because much of the material in the first four chapters applies to both servant leaders and meeting facilitators.
- All skilled meeting facilitators are servant leaders, but not all servant leaders facilitate meetings.
- â Servant leaders may also be found as advisers, arbitrators, coaches, consultants, and ombudspersons and in other roles in which they share primary skills with meeting facilitators, such as active listening, maintaining content neutrality, observing, questioning, and seeking to understand.
- Beginning in chapter 5, I refer more frequently to the meeting designerâa title that frequently also designates the meeting leader, distinguished from the âmeeting facilitator.â
- To be precise, being a meeting leader requires managing three additional rolesâmeeting coordinator, meeting documenter, and meeting designerâthat are quite independent of the role of meeting facilitator.
- â In a practical sense, however, people often act as meeting leaders because they usually perform all four roles, although not all the timeâespecially in more complicated meetings, frequently called âworkshops.â
The Servant Leader Solution
Modern Leaders | Servant Leaders |
Are content experts, based on position and power | Are context experts, based on credibility, genuineness, and inspiration |
Are involved in directing tasks | Facilitate plans and agreements based on group input |
Communicate and receive feedback | Structure activities so that stakeholders and team members evaluate them, their leaders, and one another |
Have some meeting management skills | Are skilled in using groups to build complex outputs by structuring conversations based on a collaborative tone |
Re... |