Brilliant Meetings: What To Know, Say and Do To Have Fewer, Better Meetings, 1st edition

Published by Pearson Business (April 23, 2009) © 2009

  • Duncan Peberdy
  • Jane Hammersley
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Title overview

Many of us feel that we spend too much time in unproductive meetings when we could be getting on with some ‘real’ work. Well, meetings are real work and effective meetings are the springboard for great results. Brilliant Meetings gives you the tips, tools and techniques to transform all your meetings into positive experiences. It shows you how to:

  • prepare better
  • get more out of meetings when you’re there
  • follow up effectively to get the results you need
  • attend only the meetings that matter
  • use meetings to boost your profile and your career

Brilliant Meetings gives you a commonsense, workable and practical approach to making all meetings brilliantly effective, for participants, meeting leaders and organisations.

Companion website: http://www.meetingexpert.co.uk

Table of contents

Table of Contents

1.  Next Time You Participate In a Brilliant Meeting

Introduction

1.                 Using meetings to advance your career

First impressions

Choose your seat

Personal “Elevator Pitch”

Making the right contributions

Positive language

 

2.                 Meeting Ground Rules
Meeting Ground Rules - ACTION PLAN

 

3.                 Before the meeting
Meeting invitation

Review the Agenda

Considering your contributions

 

4.                 Contributions and presentations

Planning your contribution

Structuring your contribution

Contribution/presentation delivery options

Microsoft PowerPoint™

Handouts

Delivering content

Checklist - Brilliant contributions and presentations

                       

5.                 During the meeting
Choosing your attitude

Creating your positive attitude

Questioning Techniques

Body language

 

6.                 Blagging It!

If all else fails

 

7.                 After the meeting
Leaving the room

Meeting actions

Communicating outcomes

 

Summary and Brilliant Checklist

 

2.  Next Time You Prepare For a Brilliant Meeting

Introduction

8.                 Why has the meeting been scheduled?
Meeting purpose

Meeting objectives

Meeting title

Essential meeting logistics

Constructing the Agenda

Costs and benefits

 

9.                 Who needs to be invited?

Choosing your participants

Who to leave out

Assign meeting roles

 

10.            When should the meeting be scheduled?
Meeting date

Travel

Time of day

Duration

11.            Where should the meeting take place?
Venue considerations

“More Work – Less Traffic”

Facilities

 

12.            What else needs completing?
Reinforce ground rules

Distribute briefing notes

Collate presentations

Schedule catering and breaks

Meeting notes

Meeting invitation

Additional preparation

 

13.            In Room Meeting Resources – If You’ve Got Them – Use Them

Flip charts and whiteboards

Projectors, plasma and LCD Displays

Audio and video conferencing

Remote presenter

Interactive whiteboard

Visualiser / document camera

Response systems

Telepresence

 

Summary and Brilliant Checklist

 

3.  Next Time You Lead a Brilliant Meeting

Introduction

14.            Setting the tone

First

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