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Meetings Matter: 8 Powerful Strategies for Remarkable Conversations
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Chosen as the Best Business Book by the Nonfiction Book Authors, Benjamin Franklin Awards, IndiFab, and Silver Award winner with Nautilus Book Awards and the Eric Hoffer Award. While meetings have become a pain point for millions, Paul Axtell offers a different that meetings matter and they can be mastered.
In Meetings Matter, Axtell redesigns meetings using the vital foundation of conversation.
With real-life examples and actionable advice, he shows you how to design meetings for results, lead them to achieve agendas that move projects forward, and even allow time to build the relationships that make working together in a remarkable way possible.
This book will revolutionize the meeting, moving it from a dreaded obligation to the most powerful way to get things done in business and in life.
Meetings are at the heart of effective organizations. Each meeting is an opportunity to clarify issues, set direction, sharpen focus, create alignment, and move ambitions forward. We have to change the way we think about meetings, the way we design and lead them, and, most importantly, how we manage what happens between meetings.
Axtell offers eight powerful strategies for fixing our meeting problems, and within each strategy, he provides concrete advice you can put into action immediately such as limiting participants, being vigilant about what gets on the agenda, designing the conversation for each agenda item, and managing the experience for everyone in the room so people leave feeling heard and appreciated.
Further, he explains how meetings can be your primary way to create and maintain your network of relationships.
We go to meetings. A lot of them. So let's put creating and building relationships in front of us as one of the desired outcomes. What would you do differently if you looked at each meeting as an opportunity to add to your network?
Chosen as the Best Business Book by the Nonfiction Book Authors, Benjamin Franklin Awards, IndiFab, and Silver Award winner with Nautilus Book Awards and the Eric Hoffer Award. While meetings have become a pain point for millions, Paul Axtell offers a different that meetings matter and they can be mastered.
In Meetings Matter, Axtell redesigns meetings using the vital foundation of conversation.
With real-life examples and actionable advice, he shows you how to design meetings for results, lead them to achieve agendas that move projects forward, and even allow time to build the relationships that make working together in a remarkable way possible.
This book will revolutionize the meeting, moving it from a dreaded obligation to the most powerful way to get things done in business and in life.
Meetings are at the heart of effective organizations. Each meeting is an opportunity to clarify issues, set direction, sharpen focus, create alignment, and move ambitions forward. We have to change the way we think about meetings, the way we design and lead them, and, most importantly, how we manage what happens between meetings.
Axtell offers eight powerful strategies for fixing our meeting problems, and within each strategy, he provides concrete advice you can put into action immediately such as limiting participants, being vigilant about what gets on the agenda, designing the conversation for each agenda item, and managing the experience for everyone in the room so people leave feeling heard and appreciated.
Further, he explains how meetings can be your primary way to create and maintain your network of relationships.
We go to meetings. A lot of them. So let's put creating and building relationships in front of us as one of the desired outcomes. What would you do differently if you looked at each meeting as an opportunity to add to your network?
368 pages, Paperback
First published January 20, 2015
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June 4, 2021
This book could have been an e-mail.
June 10, 2016
Much useful goodness here, particularly in the first half of the book. I like the reminders that meetings are occasions for choosing how to respond. By choosing to make meetings matter, by choosing to be awake and participate, meetings become opportunities for being remarkable. I'd like to have Paul Axtell to dinner regularly.
November 30, 2018
Great book for all levels within the organization (entry to Director). My copy is dogeared and tagged several times throughout the book.
November 28, 2017
Some good ideas, but very, very basic. If you think people and relationships are good and important, find something more in depth written by someone who studies people and relationships. If you don't, maybe this book is for you.
(Had to read it for class.)
(Had to read it for class.)
April 10, 2016
It's not the most engaging topic, but good advice for making meetings more productive.
September 14, 2016
Recommend to help focus meetings, create purpose, and produce outcomes.
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