Meeting Excellence: 33 Tools to Lead Meetings That Get Results

by Glenn M. Parker, Robert Hoffman

Meeting Excellence is a comprehensive resource that provides a wide range of ready-to-use tools that have been developed and tested by a meeting initiative within Novartis Pharmaceuticals. It is based on years of research observing team meetings, examining existing meeting documents, and conducting a number of intensive individual interviews in the U.S. and Europe. This important book offers the information and tools needed to prepare, facilitate, and follow up on all your meetings. Step by step, Meeting Excellence shows how to

Genres: Business, Communication

240 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Glenn Parker is an internationally recognized workshop facilitator, organizational consultant, and conference speaker in the area of teamwork, collaboration, and team meetings. He is the author of sixteen books including the bestsellers Cross Functional Teams: Working with Allies, Enemies and other Strangers, and Team Players and Teamwork: New Strategies for Developing Successful Collaboration. Glenn’s widely-used instrument the Parker Team Player Survey has sold more than one million copies, and his seminal work on team-player styles was featured in a bestselling CRM video.

As a consultant for more than forty years, Glenn Parker has helped create high-performing teams at hundreds of organizations including Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Merck & Company, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Philips-Van Heusen, Telcordia Technologies, BOC Gases, and the U. S. Coast Guard.

Glenn holds a Master’s degree from the University of Illinois and studied for the doctorate at Cornell University. Through his philanthropic endeavors, he has raised over $1.5 million for cancer research.

Reviews

[Liz · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some of the recommendations of this book are just common sense such as arriving on time, not multi-tasking during meetings and arriving early to set up equipment. There were some tools that I would never use, such as what toys to bring and what food to provide.

But I did find some advice helpful:

Meeting Notes should include: date, attendees, members absent, outcomes & decisions, action items, next meeting details, links to any documentation. Action Items should include: person responsible, action required and a due date.