Leading Effective Meetings The Complete Leadership Guide

I want to give you 36 Practical Tools To Create And Facilitate Meetings Of Excellence That Meet Your Goals And Help Grow Resilient Teams…

…that you can use tomorrow before, during and after your team meetings to manage meetings of excellence and meet your goals…

…to help you and your team get more done in less time so you can expedite decision making, consolidate communication and enjoy being around your coworkers.

How often have you sat through a meeting and said to yourself, “what a waste of time, I could be doing something better!”

Here are the facts…

Fact: According to a 3M Meeting Network survey…executives spend 18+ hours per week in meetings with an estimated 25-50% of meeting time considered wasted.

Fact: In a survey reported in Industry Week, 2000 managers claimed that at least 30 percent of their time spent in meetings were a waste of time.

Fact: According to a survey by Office Team, a division of Robert Half International, 45 percent of senior executives surveyed said that their employees would be more productive if their firms banned meetings for at least one-day a week.

Have You Ever Had These Concerns?
“I don’t see how this meeting is relevant to me.”
“I have other things on my mind.”
“This is not high priority for me.”
“I don’t think the meetings have a good structure.”
“I really don’t like one of my team members.”
“The meetings are a waste of time.”
“They never finish when they’re supposed to.”
“We never follow up on action items.”
“There are no action items assigned.”
“We didn’t get anywhere.”
“The same topics keep coming up over and over again.”
“There’s always negative people that have nothing to contribute.”
“We talk about the same thing over and over again.”
What does this mean for you and your team?

Fact: A collaborative study by Microsoft, America Online and Salary concluded that the average worker actually worked only 3 days per week or about 1.5 hours per day. The study identified the rest of the working time was “wasted,” with unproductive meetings heading the list.

Fact: According to a Clarizen/Harris Interactive survey:
40% of employees think status update meetings waste valuable time
70% say these meetings don’t help them get any work done.
67% say they are spending up to 4 hours/week getting ready for their next status update meeting.

So, how do you go from time wasted to time saved before, during and after your team meetings to move forward towards your goals?

Like I said, these are 36 practical tools…

…to help you and your team get more done in less time so you can expedite decision making, consolidate communication and enjoy being around your coworkers, and of course, we call it…

Meeting: Motivate Change Internally: The Art and Science of Meetings That Motivate