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Informationen zum Autor JON PETZ is a motivational keynote speaker. He has spoken to more than a half million people during presentations to companies including Walmart, Honda, Deloitte, and AT&T. In 2008, American City Business Journals named him a Top Business Professional Under 40 Years of Age. Klappentext Meetings, the cornerstones of collaboration, inspiration, and progress, have suffered excruciating humiliation at the hands of corporate America. Gone are good agendas, participation, focus, and follow-up that are the lifeblood of great meetings. Instead, too many meetings drone on like some sort of soul-crushing, walking-dead zombie robbing workplaces of joy, productivity, and time. But there is good news: meetings can be saved ... by you! Boring Meetings Suck empowers you to take charge of meetings that have become a waste of time and talent. Most books on meetings focus only on the person responsible for planning and hosting the meeting, but Boring Meetings Suck dares to admit what other authors avoid. Only when attendees learn how to diplomatically speak up and get meetings back on track wi ll everyone benefit. This book offers dozens of Suckification Reduction Devices, or SRDs, to make the next meeting you attend more efficient and effective. Learn which meetings you can skip and how to call out the perpetrators of poor meeting etiquette. But it's not enough to stop others' meetings from sucking; you must make sure your meeting doesn't suck. Learn how to become a better speaker by making eye contact, working the stage, and varying the speed of your speech. Get the essential elements for planning large meetings or conferences, and get new techniques that will help you run "get in, get it done, and get out" meetings. With Boring Meetings Suck , you'll learn: How to graciously excuse yourself from a meeting without losing your job The right ways to use PowerPoint (and other technologies) Three polite ways to motivate people to wrap up Why you should turn your phone on in all meetings Tips to make your presentation powerful and not pointless How to be a meeting hero, and get people to show up on time, participate, and return to their desks happy and with extra time in their pockets When done right, meetings can rock. They can be vehicles for innovation, motivation, and decision-making. They can spark revolutions. They can save the world! All you have to do is not let them suck, and this book shows you how. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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:...
