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Meeting & Event Planning for Dummies  Expert advice on how to stage the perfect event every time "A terrific resource of information for anyone in the event-planning business." —James Spellos, CMP, President, Meeting U. Meeting & Event Planning For Dummies is a practical step-by-step guide to the strategies and techniques event-planning professionals use to bring people together. This comprehensive resource covers all the angles – from the little details to the big picture – to make sure your business meetings and special events come off without a hitch! Praise for Meeting & Event Planning For Dummies "Packed with valuable information in an easy-to-use format. [It] covers all the basics for the meeting planning novice." —Diane Silberstein, President, Diane Silberstein & Associates "A great resource book every event professional should have.... Checklist heaven! We all love our checklists, and this book is full of them!" —Cathy Breden, CAE, CMP Beyond Words: A Guide to Drawing Out Ideas  The purpose of this book is to demonstrate in easy, concrete steps that anyone can draw well enough to enhance his or her communication skills. Milly Sonneman takes you through initially simple and then progressively more advanced steps that can teach any person, in spite of self-doubts, how to make compelling drawings that will clarify ideas and make them more interesting. Sonneman stresses that your body already knows how to draw and teaches you how to listen to it and learn. This is a fantastic book for teachers, for people who do business presentations, and for anybody who wants to draw for the fun of it!Author: Milly R. Sonneman Paperback: 158 pages Company: Ten Speed Press (1997-05) ISBN: 0898159113 List Price: $19.95 Amazon Price: $13.57 Used Price: $12.24 Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!: Ten Principles for Leading Meetings That Matter  Most people think meetings are all too often a waste of time. But Weisbrod and Janoff say that's only because of the way most meetings are run. In this book they offer ten principles that will allow you to get more done in meetings by doing less. The key is knowing what you can and can't control. You can't controol people's motives, behavior, or attitudes. That's one area where most meeting leaders' attempts to "do something" actually end up doing nothing at all. But you can control the conditions under which people interact, and you can control your own reactions. Based on over 30 years of experience and extensive research, the authors show exactly how to establish a meeting structure that will create conditions for success, efficiency, and productivity. And, equally important, they offer advice for making sure your own emotions don't get in the way; for knowing when to "just stand there" rather than intervene inappropriately, unproductively, or futilely.Author: Marvin Weisbord, Sandra Janoff Paperback: 194 pages Illustrated Company: Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2007-07-16) ISBN: 1576754251 List Price: $19.95 Amazon Price: $2.68 Used Price: $12.67 Dialogue Mapping: Building Shared Understanding of Wicked Problems  In contrast to the use of agendas and restrictive structures, dialogue mapping is a facilitation technique that allows the intelligence and learning of the group to emerge naturally. Each participant can see how their comments contribute (or don't) to the coherence and order of the group's thinking. The first full-length book to bring dialogue mapping to a wider audience, Dialogue Mapping provides an exciting new conceptual framework that will change the way readers view projects and project management.Author: Jeff Conklin Paperback: 264 pages Company: Wiley (2005-11-18) ISBN: 0470017686 List Price: $75.00 Amazon Price: $47.33 Used Price: $47.31 Meeting Excellence: 33 Tools to Lead Meetings That Get Results  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
Running Meetings: Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges (Pocket Mentor)  Running Meetings will be the essential guide to meetings that mobilize people toward constructive action It covers everything from meeting location and etiquette to effective planning, facilitation, and follow-up; from dealing with problem behaviours to getting closure on key issues. It explains what effective meetings entail - and shows how to make them happen. Packed with ideas and applicable tools, Running Meetings is every manager's portable meeting advisor. Key features Instructs readers how to: Author: Harvard Business School Press Paperback: 95 pages Company: Harvard Business School Press (2006-04-30) ISBN: 1422101851 List Price: $9.95 Amazon Price: $1.99 Used Price: $0.39 The Secrets of Facilitation: The S.M.A.R.T. Guide to Getting Results With Groups  The Secrets of Facilitation delivers a clear vision of facilitation excellence and reveals the specific techniques effective facilitators use to produce consistent, repeatable results with groups. Author Michael Wilkinson has trained thousands of managers, mediators, analysts, and consultants around the world to apply the power of SMART (Structured Meeting And Relating Techniques) facilitation to achieve amazing results with teams and task forces. He shows how anyone can use these proven group techniques in conflict resolution, consulting, managing, presenting, teaching, planning, selling, and other professional as well as personal situations.Author: Michael Wilkinson Hardcover: 320 pages Company: Jossey-Bass (2004-10-29) ISBN: 0787975788 List Price: $45.00 Amazon Price: $30.30 Used Price: $34.76 Taking Minutes of Meetings (Creating Success)  Minutes are vital to the success of meetings. Attendees rely on them for information they may have missed and they serve as an essential communications tool for non-participants. In addition, the action points highlighted in minutes act as a timely reminder for the whole organization. Minute-taking is such a crucial part of business management meetings but there is a common misconception that all secretaries and administrators can simply take minutes.
Taking minutes involves listening skills, the ability to absorb information and to summarize it simultaneously. The minute-taker is one of the most important and powerful people in a meeting. Although the tasks can be daunting, it is an opportunity to develop knowledge, broaden horizons and build credibility within the organization.
Now in its second edition, Taking Minutes of Meetings is an accessible reference guide following the whole meeting cycle. Starting with organising a meeting, it goes on to give reliable, hands-on advice about the sections of a meeting; the agenda; personal preparation; taking notes; accuracy; structuring notes; writing up the minutes and recording decisions and actions. Aimed at anyone new to taking minutes and professionals looking to brush up their technique. Author: Joanna Gutmann Paperback: 147 pages Illustrated Company: Kogan Page (2006-07-30) ISBN: 0749445599 List Price: $17.95 Amazon Price: $10.60 Used Price: $10.96 Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable...About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business  Casey McDaniel had never been so nervous in his life. In just ten minutes, The Meeting, as it would forever be known, would begin. Casey had every reason to believe that his performance over the next two hours would determine the fate of his career, his financial future, and the company he had built from scratch. “How could my life have unraveled so quickly?” he wondered. In his latest page-turning work of business fiction, best-selling author Patrick Lencioni provides readers with another powerful and thought-provoking book, this one centered around a cure for the most painful yet underestimated problem of modern business: bad meetings. And what he suggests is both simple and revolutionary. Casey McDaniel, the founder and CEO of Yip Software, is in the midst of a problem he created, but one he doesn’t know how to solve. And he doesn’t know where or who to turn to for advice. His staff can’t help him; they’re as dumbfounded as he is by their tortuous meetings. Then an unlikely advisor, Will Peterson, enters Casey’s world. When he proposes an unconventional, even radical, approach to solving the meeting problem, Casey is just desperate enough to listen. As in his other books, Lencioni provides a framework for his groundbreaking model, and makes it applicable to the real world. Death by Meeting is nothing short of a blueprint for leaders who want to eliminate waste and frustration among their teams, and create environments of engagement and passion. The Big Book of Business Games: Icebreakers, Creativity Exercises and Meeting Energizers  Break the ice at your next meeting with The Big Book of Business Games! In this exciting resource book, two of today's acknowledged games masters serve up a cookbook of activities that you can learn to use, guaranteed to generate a lively discussion, or simply give a group a "breather" from the monotony of a boring staff meeting or presentation. Each of the 75 group games and activities here is adapted from the best-selling Games Trainers Play series and shortened to suit the needs of managers and team leaders to use with their departments, staff, or committees. Author: John W. Newstrom, Edward E. Scannell Paperback: 170 pages Company: McGraw-Hill (1995-11-01) ISBN: 0070464766 List Price: $21.95 Amazon Price: $7.90 Used Price: $4.74 |