Meetings, by Default or by Design is a workbook with 100+ upgrades and enhancements for all those who desire better meetings & events. It describes 40 different default meeting practices in 40 chapters and analyses the potential for improvement for each of them. It does so in 4 areas of possible improvement.
Area 1, Reasons and Objectives Area 2, Production Area 3, Participants Area 4, Content Meetings, by Design or by Default is an eminently practical book. It takes the reader by the hand and offers concrete advice on upgrading meetings with a view to improving their outcomes. Over 100 pieces of advice, in fact.
Meetings, by Design or by Default condenses the authors’ more than twenty years of pioneering work as meeting designers. It argues convincingly that meetings can be better – better in the three Effectiveness, in Efficiency and in Energy. To create such meetings, the authors here share the design methodology they have developed in the course of their over 50 years as practitioners.
If you feel that the meetings you are holding have the potential to perform better on the three Es, this book tells you how to get that done.