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Boring Meetings Suck
Get More Out of Your Meetings, or Get Out of More Meetings
Jon Petz (Author)
9781118004623, Wiley
Hardback, published 10 May 2011
240 pages, Tables: 1 B&W, 0 Color
21.8 x 14.5 x 2.3 cm, 0.363 kg
The guide that proves your meetings don't have to suck! There's a big dull elephant in the boardroom: this meeting! Most of the millions of meetings held in the world today are a monumental waste of time and talent. Worse still, most of the so-called solutions and books for boring meetings are twice as boring. Boring Meetings Suck provides tips and tactics to deliver "Get-In, Get-It-Done, or Get-Out" style meetings, while also tackling what most prefer to avoid; that you don't have to BE in charge of a meeting to TAKE charge of a meeting. This entertaining and take-no-prisoners guide is full of easily deployed SRDs?Suckification Reduction Devices?that will help you make your next meeting both efficient and effective. Your meetings do not have to bore, nor must they suck. Instead, get the winning techniques in Boring Meetings Suck, and make your meetings awesome in their engagement and productivity, or stop having them!
Foreword Don The Idea Guy Snyder xi Agenda Item 1 Boring Meetings Suck . . . so Why Do We Have ’Em? 1 Hey, Not All Meetings Suck 3 Nothing More Boring Than a Boring Book about Boring Meetings 4 What’s in It for You? 5 How Do You Use This Book? Jump in and Read the Agenda Item You Need 7 Are You Ready to Make Meetings Rock? 7 Agenda Item 2 Better Meetings and Conventions through Technology . . . but Please Proceed with Caution 9 The Very Basics 14 Enhanced Meeting Technologies 15 For the More Adventurous 20 For the Outright Daring 21 Agenda Item 3 How to Be a Meeting Superhero . . . in 10 Minutes or Less 25 Part 1: New Meeting Styles 26 New Meeting Style 1: ‘‘Open House’’ 26 New Meeting Style 2: ‘‘Pass the Buck’’ 30 New Meeting Style 3: ‘‘Stand It Up’’ 33 New Meeting Style 4: ‘‘Triple T Your Way to New Ideas’’ 36 Part 2: Speed Meetings 40 Speed Meeting Type 1: ‘‘Two ’n Out’’ 40 Speed Meeting Type 2: ‘‘Step It Up’’ 43 Speed Meeting Type 3: ‘‘I Gotta Use It’’ 46 Agenda Item 4 Why Everyday Office Meetings Suck . . . Skip This and You’re Screwed 49 Your Preparation Sucks 50 Having No Agenda Sucks 55 Your Follow-Up Sucks 59 Scheduling a Meeting Sucks 63 Warning: Problem Solving at 8 AM and 6 PM Sucks 66 The Overinvitation Sucks 69 Starting Late Sucks 73 ‘‘Dogs Who Get Off the Leash’’ Suck 80 Conference Rooms Suck 84 Agenda Item 5 Your Presentation Sucks . . . Really, Yours Sucks 93 PowerPoint Sucks 97 ‘‘Um . . . aah’’ Sucks 102 PowerPoint Really Sucks 105 Monotone Speeches and Movements Suck 109 Unreadable Slides Suck 117 Cutesy Moving Graphics Suck 121 Agenda Item 6 Make the Best of Sucky Meetings . . . or Get Out While You Can 123 Never-Ending Meetings Suck 123 Deja Meetings Suck 132 Project and Update Meetings Suck 136 Scattered Showers’ Meetings Suck 140 Conference Calls Suck 145 Sales Team Meetings Suck 153 Online or Virtual Meetings Suck 158 Videoconferencing Sucks 163 Friday Meetings Suck 167 Agenda Item 7 Big Meetings Suck Even Bigger . . . Get Some Help or Suffer the Consequences 169 Poorly Planned Meetings Suck 170 Annual Meetings, Conventions, Teambuilding, and Company Retreats Suck 176 Bad Audio Sucks 180 Distractions Suck 184 Guest Speakers Suck 190 No Introduction and Bad Introductions Suck 192 Bad Emcees Suck 195 Agenda Item 8 Heed This . . . or Continue to Suck for the Next Millennium 201 Consider Not Having One 202 What You Can Do When Stuck in a Boring Meeting 205 Conclusion 210 Acknowledgments 213 About the Author 215 Index 217
Subject Areas: Business & management [KJ]
