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Practical pointers for maximizing meetings and motivating team members!
At their worst, meetings can waste time, lack focus, foster a combative spirit, or be just plain boring. At their best, meetings can be a positive, dynamic experience that nurtures individual strengths while inspiring teamwork to successfully accomplish an established task. The fate of a meeting lies in the skill of the facilitator, and this easy-to-use guide has all the tips and tools necessary to make you shine in this challenging role.
Anyone charged with navigating a group of people toward a desired objective will benefit from this book’s indispensable features, which include:
- Templates for easy implementation at every stage of the facilitation process
- Straightforward tactics for managing difficult participants and emotionally charged situations
- Realistic examples to help you avoid pitfalls
- Surefire methods for delegating in a meaningful and respectful manner
From pre-meeting preparation, to the meeting’s critical first few minutes, to its conclusion and beyond, this manual provides step-by-step guidance for the entire facilitation process. It is packed with proven do’s and don’ts based on psychological principles, research, real-life experience, and field-tested best practices. The user-friendly strategies focus on such key areas as team building, brainstorming, motivating, overcoming problematic situations, reaching goals, and assessing results.
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The facilitator's Bible: cultivating and creating........2004-12-11
Finally, a book that is easy to follow, addresses the most common problems encountered by facilitators, and offers practical advice to both novice and pro alike in creating effective group work. Eller gives tips on how to manage difficult individuals with everyday gestures and postures and ways to diffuse a tense environment. Every chapter from "What am I getting into" to "Reaching Peak Performance: connecting their minds" and more is well-designed and deals with every complexity and situation imaginable for those involved in education. Whether you are looking for strategies to enhance the environment that the group will meet in or ways to make sure that the task at hand is not forgotten, this book contains ideas and contemporary models to put the facilitator's mind at ease and allow the team members to focus on the agenda, not petty problems. In addition, the author introduces in chapter seven a concise and clear path to attain the desired goal and does so in a manner that proves to be innovative and stimulating. Most of the books on the shelf that offer the reader suggestions tend to be rather dry and boring or use techniques and situations that haven't occured in many decades. Poignant and refreshing. Mr Eller gets an A+.
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Today's kids are busier than ever, and in many families, both parents work. Without time to deepen communication and strengthen family bonds, family relationships can become superficial and strained. Our Family Meeting Book helps families manage their time and priorities through short, weekly family meetings—a technique that therapists have recommended for years. Fifty-two agendas—one for each week of the year, though they may be used in any order—invite families to create traditions, resolve issues, review goals, make long-range plans, applaud accomplishments, build self-esteem and self-reliance in children, simplify and organize family matters, and promote important values: character development, mutual love and respect, and community responsibility and awareness. Full of original photographs and eye-catching illustrations, featuring many write-on pages, it's a planning tool that becomes a written history of family life—and a treasured keepsake.
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Good format for open family meetings.......2007-06-03
Our family has enjoyed using this book for organizing and structuring regular family meetings. We're not compulsive or corporate, but we're trying to engage our kids in dealing with issues systematically and having a "voice" in or family.
This book is great. The approach they take causes us all to pray, praise each other for what has been good, suggest new ideas and update on events as well as bring up areas where our expectations haven't been met (in a non-threatening and productive way). Also, its clear structure and format for making notes about what we discussed helps us track what we have been doing and I think will serve as a memento when the kids are grown up.
What is more -- we have begun getting our kids to lead our family meetings themselves! The "set agenda" approach makes it easier for them to feel some empowerment in bringing up issues. As a parent, having family meetings that are short, efficient and effective at noticing and celebrating success, planning for the coming week and dealing with unment expectations has been a real value for us.
Somewhat useful, but not as useful as it could have been..........2005-10-25
The bulk of the book is made up of proposed agendas and weekly calendars. The agendas have some good ideas, but I suspect the 52 weekly calendar pages are not going to be very useful to most people. Most "organize your life" books talk about the importance of having JUST ONE family calendar where EVERYTHING written down, and perhaps ONE pocket sized calendar for each adult where everything is transferred diligently to the family calendar.
The 52 weekly pages in "Our Family Meeting Book" could not stand alone as a family calendar because users are encouraged to flip around between agendas/calendars and thus it would not be chronological. Maintaining these calendar pages in addition to a family calendar is just redundant. Although perhaps the calendar could be used to record accomplishments or something.
Anyway, page 4 contains the most valuable information in the book - 10 tips for holding a successful family meeting. The book would have been considerably more useful if the author had fleshed out these tips. For example, tip #1 is "Establish Ground Rules", but "our Family Meeting Book" provides just three examples of single ground rules. I think examples of a complete SET of ground rules, "These are the 10 rules the Jones use, and here are the 7 rules the Clarks use", or even sample rules for homes with teenagers versus homes with young kids, would have been more helpful.
And tip #9, "Include fun activities", tells the reader to "try playing a game, telling a joke, creating something, sharing a story, or singing a song". There is SO MUCH that could have been expanded on here! People who want to start having family meetings are probably really busy and somewhat stressed and don't want to go to the local crowded and noisy Toys-R-Us looking at walls of games trying to find "fun activities". Some tried and true recommendations, such as "The Set card game is an excellent thinking game involving pattern recognition that children 5 and over can play on equal footing with teens and adults", would have been much more helpful.
The last few pages are also useful, a list of free summer activities, brainstorming pages for summer vacation, a camp planner, a party planner, a chore chart, etc..
wonderful!.......2004-08-11
Many experts recommend that families have meetings on a regular basis, but have you ever wondered how to go about doing this in a constructive way? This book is a great tool to get you started! It will not only help you keep track of your weekly discussions and decisions, but it will also help you plan your menus together as a family, and there are great discussion ideas for each meeting to help encourage good communication between family members. There are logs to keep track of the upcoming activities for the week, and many tools that you can make copies of and use repeatedly, such as chore charts, trip and party planners, bank account logs, and much much more! Although it takes a lot more than a book to keep a family running smoothly, this book would surely help out!!!
Fantastic Resource for Families.......2003-07-01
I love the ideas in this book. In addition to giving a format for family meetings, it also gives the reader very value-oriented topics to discuss during the meetings. It is a great tool for any family who wants to start these kind of meetings and it is equally as helpful to those already having these meetings (like my family). Great ideas!
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How to Manage Meetings (The Sunday Time Creating Success)
Alan Barker
Manufacturer: Kogan Page
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Meetings are essential to business: They help us learn, exchange information and make decisions. Still, most of us dread the thought of attending yet another meeting because many of them are poorly planned and executed. Author Alan Barker offers guidance on how to get meetings right and reap the rewards of an efficient, successful meeting.
Contents include: Preparing for a meeting, Effective participation, Chairing a meetings, Group dynamics, Problem-solving within a group, Different types of meetings and Follow-up actions.
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Right on time: how to make meetings work.......2007-04-16
Alan Barker knows just about everything about meetings, and in this somewhat academic discussion of the ubiquitous business meeting, he outlines it all for you - quite literally, as the book consists almost entirely of headings, bullet points, sidebars and drills. Using this easy-to-read structure, Barker presents a variety of insightful ways to look at problems and inspire creative thinking. We recommend this book to managers who wonder why their meetings go on for so long yet fail to lead to action. Meeting-wise, it leaves no stone unturned.
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Creating Corporate Audio-Visual Presentations: How to Commission and Manage Successful Projects
Richard Worth
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Successful audio-visual presentations are the result of careful management by--as well as creative collaboration between--the client and the professional communications firm. Because of their high visibility within the corporation, presentations risk falling prey to "script by committee" unless there is a clear plan at hand for managing the project. Executives who find themselves responsible for a presentation need to be fully aware of what audio-visual can and cannot do--and how to go about getting it done right. In this how-to guide for corporate executives, author Richard Worth covers every step of the process in sequence, from determining objectives to preparing for production and post-production. While the emphasis is on working with an audio-visual professional, Worth also includes "do-it-yourself" tips for readers who want to keep the project in-house. Selecting slides, video, film or multimedia is one of the first choices to make. This decision, like others that follow, should be based on a determination of purpose, audience and message. Worth provides easy-to-follow worksheets to help get the planning process going. Readers looking for budget guidelines will learn how much money they will need to invest to get the presentations they want. And, to help readers select the communications professional they will be working with, Worth offers down-to-earth advice based on his years of practical experience. In non-technical language, he critiques and analyzes samples of script proposals and treatments, providing valuable insight into the creative process. Any executive or manager responsible for sales, training, public relations, fund-raising, employee relations, or recruitment will find this a valuable resource for planning and implementing effective presentations.
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Title: Dial up disability management strategies: DMEC and Liberty Mutual led a call-center leadership seminar series that resulted in six tactics to manage high-absence costs.(UPFRONT: News, Update and other Emerging Strategies from Around the World)
Author: Peter Mead
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Volume: 16
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Title: Does your supply chain manage you? Process management: it's not what gets done but how it gets done.(Editorial)
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High-tech tools help U.S. military get defensive: industry must manage technology evolving at lightning speed, retired general says.: An article from: San Diego Business Journal
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Title: High-tech tools help U.S. military get defensive: industry must manage technology evolving at lightning speed, retired general says.
Author: Julie Gallant
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San Diego Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 19, 2006
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Volume: 27
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Do you have difficulty accomplishing your most important tasks - the ones most important to your career success? Do you feel disorganized? Do you forget things you must do, or lose track of appointments, dates, deadlines?
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The Enhanced Guide for Occupational Exploration: Descriptions for the 2,800 Most Important Jobs
Marilyn Maze , and
Donald Mayall
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The Boys' Guide To Wealth
Rachel Cunningham-Day
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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 men irrespective of their age, lifestyle or level of financial awareness. This book is relevant to every man who earns, or simply spends, money. This book aims to change the way men 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 look after 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 fitness programme. All fitness programmes start with an understanding of current body condition followed by a period of adopting diet and exercise 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 fitness programme, 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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House of Goodyear: Story of Rubber and Modern Business (Companies and Men)
Hugh Allen
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ASIN: 0405080638 |
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Enjoy the autobiographies of outstanding leaders in every field of business, skillfully condensed on two cassettes, so you can listen to them anywhere. Hearing these men's words is like a personal visit as they reveal what their priceless experience has taught them...
MEN AND RUBBER; THE STORY OF BUSINESS - HARVEY S. FIRESTONE
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Men and rubber;: The story of business,
Harvey Samuel Firestone
Manufacturer: Doubleday, Page & Co
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1926. This volume tells the tale of Harvey S. Firestone, the founder of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, of his rise to fame and wealth, and the ideals behind his success. Firestone's philosophy is that a business which exists without a reason is due for an early death. If you ask yourself why you are in business and can find no answer other than "I want to make money," you will save money by getting out of business and going to work for someone, for you are in business without sufficient reason. The single reason for the existence of any business must be that it supplies a human need or want, and, if his experience is worth anything, a business which has this reason for its existence will be bound in the end to prosper if thought be put into it.
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Straight Talk about Business from a Businessman.......2006-04-19
If you want to learn something about entrepreneurship or even if you're management in a large corporation, one can learn a thing or two from Mr. Firestone's experience. Whether from how to keep a customer, techniques on what to look for in promoting someone, to making time for yourself to think about the business vs. the business using your time, these and other hard earned experiences have been reprinted for your benefit.
Though Mr. Firestone's account was written fourscore ago, the business examples read as if they were of today's account as many problems he encountered sound contemporary and remind me of some of my own business problems. I am always surprised by historical accounts whether of history or business how the language somehow comes across as contemporary. One somehow goes into the historical reading process thinking otherwise, but leaves knowing different that our great or grand parents really went thru what we are going thru now.
Though some chapters are somewhat autobiographical in nature, the anecdotal business insights from both Thomas Edison and Henry Ford come out and are worth the review. All in, a nice quick read with business lessons to learn and remember.
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