Book Description
This course will teach you the critical skills to conduct and participate in effective meetings, revise and clarify your writing and speaking, and create and execute engaging presentations and teleconferences.
Customer Reviews:
Great tool for getting back to communication basics!.......1999-12-08
Book includes 17 one-minute tips to improve meetings. Includes tips for before, during and at the end of the meeting. Also includes 16 one-minute tips to improve business writing. There's also a section with tips to improve your presentations.
I was looking for some basic presentation items to include in a train-the-trainer session. But as I got to looking at some of the other tips, I realized that I could benefit from them, too.
The book has some excellent exercises. The one on 'Are You Paying Fines For Your Company Meetings?' is meant to heighten awareness about the cost of poorly run meetings. Another exercise provides a checklist of items to consider when calling a group meeting that could interfere with productivity. Those are just a few of the really good material covered by this well-done book.
Book Description
Give confident, enthusiastic, and persuasive presentations. With an emphasis on the need for preparation and practice, this course provides guidance on how to organize, create, and deliver effective presentations. Conquer your fear of public speaking. Prepare and deliver well organized presentations. Capture and maintain audience interest.
Learning Objectives: To explain how to build credibility and confidence as a speaker. To show how to use presentation technology to your advantage. To provide techniques for preparing and delivering a presentation well.
Customer Reviews:
Good basics, but needs updating.......2000-07-20
This book does a good job covering the many basics of making an effective presentation, including dealing with anxiety, personal appearance, planning and preparation. However, it needs to be updated to reflect the many changes in presentation technology (and technology in general) since 1993 that are available to the presenter.
For example, to quote from page 55, "CD-ROM Players--These 'read only' players (you can't record onto them from your own computer, yet!) can hold a gigantic amount of information. Some disks contain an entire encyclopedia. These devices can store color photographs, video clips, sound clips, huge data bases and other types of information that require a lot of memory. There is new technology available that will allow you to take a photograph, have it transferred to a CD-ROM disk and then bring it up on your computer screen." What next, phones without wires? Overall a good book on the subject of preparing for and delivering presentations as long as you're not looking for any tips on PowerPoint or technology-based presentations.
Concise and to the point, good for a beginner.......1999-03-02
I would say if you never put a presentation together, or looking for few ideas in putting a presentation together, this book is for you. The material is concise and gives good backgound on how to put a professional presentation together. I recommend it to a beginning managers and executives that want to evalute their presentation mode.
Book Description
Examines how to restrict crowded agendas, scattered focuses of discussion, and all the familiar weaknesses of group discipline--and use board energy efficiently and effectively. Tells how to select subject matter for meetings, how to plan use of board time, control the agenda, and discusses how long a board meeting should be in order to fulfill its task of governing.
Customer Reviews:
Just Not Worth the Money.......2006-09-01
The title implies far more than you'll get from this "book". In reality it is 18 fairly small pages of generic information such as "ensure that the board is dealing with board topics". As a free pamphlet given away at the SBA it would be fine, but not for the money asked.
Book Description
Wouldn't you like to hold meetings that people love to attend because they get results and leave feeling inspired? If you've ever wondered if there aren't effective, simple ways to craft and guide more productive meetings, you have found the right book! It is brimming with common sense and practical, yet eye-opening, insight. You'll find this worth reading many times.
Customer Reviews:
Wonderfully simple yet highly effective!.......2005-08-09
This book distills the essential elements of planning and conducting effective meetings into incredibly down-to-earth concepts. The subject matter is based on powerful psychological principles, yet the author presents them as simple common sense. You can't go wrong with this little book and what it has to offer.
Well Worth Your Time.......2003-02-21
Robert Kausen has written a thought-provoking book that could help any business person get greater leverage in the workplace. I am a business consultant and lead Leadership Seminars for business executives and their companies. It is refreshing to come across a book that addresses head on the critical link between a person's state of mind and their effectiveness at work. This book is very user-friendly. The first part of the book helps you to feel confident that you have ready access to healthy states of mind and what you need to realize in order to live more consistently in these states. The second part of the book does an excellent job of conveying how you can bring this understanding into practical application. Mr. Kausen presents information that will not only be helpful in the workplace but will also help many people to improve their relationships at home. I am recommending this book to all the business people who attend my trainings.
Excellent Meetings, Here we come!.......2003-02-06
I am going to keep this book on my desk as a reference book for how to promote productive, inspiring meetings. Mr. Kausen has the unique ability of being able to awakening the reader to the little things that make all the difference in having productive meetings, such as listening and open-mindedness.
This book should be given as standard equipment to anyone promoted to a leadership position.
We've Got To Start Meeting Lilke This!.......2003-01-30
This is a wonderful book. I read right through it. It is well written and easy to read. It is important information for anyone who works with others in groups or meetings.
The principles in this book are profound, and Robert explains them in an easy, common sense, and accessible way. I have been using these principles in my work for over ten years, and I found myself learning new things as I read nevertheless.
It is a pleasure to have a really simple, yet effective way to think about a topic that can be so confusing at times.
Robert brings a great deal of experience which was a joy to learn from. I loved reading his stories.
A Groundbreaking Approach to Meetings.......2003-01-23
If you've had it up to here with marathon meetings that drain energy and accomplish little, this is a must-read. Robert Kausen shows that anyone can master the art of the brief (yes, brief), productive,and inspiring meeting. You'll want to get a copy for everyone you meet with regularly.
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I Hear You: Listening Skills to Make You a Better Manager
W. Eastwood Atwater , and
Eastwood Atwater
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0134506847 |
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50 One-Minute Tips to Better Communication (The Fifty Minute Series)
Phillip E. Bozek
Manufacturer: Crisp Learning
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 156052071X |
Book Description
This course will help you with all the meeting essentials—planning, creating an agenda, moderating conflict, and summarizing action items. Match the meeting structure to your goals. Solve common meeting problems. Stimulate discussions and participation.
Learning Objectives: To show how to conduct productive meetings. To present techniques for high-quality decision making. To provide meeting leadership skills.
Customer Reviews:
The Handbook of Successful Meetings.......2006-12-06
Marion E. Haynes has written a book with a good grounding in planning, organizing and running effective meetings. Although the book is brief, it is packed with what it takes to plan, execute and manage productive meetings. The author highlights the critical role of the meeting leader to ensure that a meeting progresses to its stated goals, ensure that all participants make their contributions, moderate conflicts, deal with disruptive and inattentive participants, summarize action items and closing a meeting on an upbeat and positive note.
This is a well written book that is written in plain English and that is easy to follow and understand. Readers will learn, among other things, the importance of having clear agendas which states the purpose of the meeting, starting and ending meetings on time, problem solving, stimulating participation and discussion and writing the record of the meeting, following up on action items and evaluating meeting effectiveness.
The book is an important reference guide that is well worth reading.
Meeting Skills Review.......2005-09-12
The book boiled down the basic skills and walked through how they should be implemented. I made a generic guide for myself and the quality of my meetings improved dramatically.
Effective Meeting Skills.......2000-08-15
Nice, short, concise format for managers. Gets to the point with some meaningful tips beyond introductory level, going to addressing meeting problems and meeting follow-up and evaluation. Simple quizes to evaluate your understanding of the books content as you go. Example checklists help you get the meeting right.
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How to Run Better Business Meetings: A Reference Guide for Managers
3M Meeting Management Team
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Companies
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0070310297 |
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Better and best practices.(On the Road): An article from: Mortgage Banking
Neil J. Morse
Manufacturer: Mortgage Bankers Association of America
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
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ASIN: B00082EB2S
Release Date: 2005-07-31 |
Book Description
This digital document is an article from Mortgage Banking, published by Mortgage Bankers Association of America on April 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1123 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details
Title: Better and best practices.(On the Road)
Author: Neil J. Morse
Publication:
Mortgage Banking (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2004
Publisher: Mortgage Bankers Association of America
Volume: 64
Issue: 7
Page: 105(2)
Distributed by Thomson Gale
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Better Business Meetings
Robert B. Nelson
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Book Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0786301880 |
Book Description
Here are the most effective techniques for obtaining high-quality decisions in a timely manner from any team or group. With forms, checklists and examples that help readers prepare for and lead meetings, this hands-on guide shows how to: ensure that everyone plays a part in the meeting; avoid mistakes and promote opportunities for input; come to closure on decisions and clearly identify next action steps.
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Vault Guide to the Top Government and Non-Profit Legal Employers (Vault Career Library)
Marcy Lerner
Manufacturer: Vault, Inc.
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Vault Guide to Litigation Law Careers (Vault Career Guide)
ASIN: 1581312148 |
Book Description
For the first time, Vault is profiling government and non-profit employers with its trademark in-depth style. Profiles include history and recent news, the hiring process for legal professionals, pay and perks, hours, culture, training and more.
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The Girls' Guide To Wealth
Rachel Cunningham-Day
Manufacturer: Universal Publishers
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Binding: Paperback
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| Women & Business
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ASIN: 1581125062 |
Book Description
It may not be polite to talk about money, but no-one said we shouldn't write about it.
This accessible, humorous book is written to appeal to a broad spectrum of women irrespective of their age, lifestyle or level of financial awareness. This book is relevant to every woman who earns, or simply spends, money. This book aims to change the way women think about money - forever.
Money provides protection. If you fall upon hard times, the money you have saved will support you. Money also provides freedom - freedom to travel, to educate yourself, to treat your family and friends. Making the most of your money, like everything else in life, is a matter of habit and discipline. This book aims to get you into the habit and give you that discipline. No matter how much money you have, this book will help you substantially increase your disposable income while maintaining your lifestyle.
Two of the main causes of stress in life are financial debt and lack of funds to do what you want in life. This book will reduce the stress in your life by first showing you how to save money in all areas of your life, so increasing your monthly disposable income, then advising you how best to apply this money to eliminate your debts.
This book will encourage you to approach your finances as you would a diet. All diets start with an understanding of current body condition followed by a period of adopting diet guidelines and monitoring progress. This book contains exercises to enable you to understand your current financial condition and to monitor it. The book then provides guidelines to employ in every area of your life to help you streamline your spending and maximise your savings. As with a diet, the more closely you follow the guidelines, the more money you will save.
A step-by-step real life case study is provided at the end of the book. This enables you to work through the financial exercises and see the money-saving tips in a real life situation. The case study demonstrates how to move from significant indebtedness to debt-free living in easy-to-follow steps.
This book will be the best investment you make this year.
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- GOOD OVERVIEW OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURE & ITS TRANSFORMATION
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The Legend of Ibp: Established 1960
Jeffrey L. Rodengen , and
Jon Vanzile
Manufacturer: Write Stuff Enterprises
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0945903529 |
Customer Reviews:
GOOD OVERVIEW OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURE & ITS TRANSFORMATION.......2000-09-09
The author has done an outstanding job summarizing this controversial but very successful company.
As an Iowan who lived next door to Bob Peterson when he was managing the Fort Dodge plant, it is good to see the company he now leads get the accurate coverage it deserves.
Leaders who see opportunities and force changes upon industrial sectors or governments often times get criticized by those who don't want to change, yet without that leadership society would not be better off.
While IBP has not always been perfect in their approach to doing business, they have always been willing to adapt.
Anyone interested in the transformation of the american agricultural economy would be well served to read this exciting story. IBP has lead by example.
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- Effective Business Writing :(A Guide For Those who Write On the Job) 2nd Edition Revised And Updated
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