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Meetings, by Default or by Design: You are holding a workbook with 100+ upgrades and enhancements for all those who desire better meetings & events
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
Why are you holding your meeting?Outcomes, impact and behaviour changeMeeting Information transferMeeting reason networkingMeeting uniting your participantsMeeting motivationMeeting decision-makingMeeting routineDesigning meetings about strategyMaking meetings memorableArea 2, ProductionGetting started the right wayWho has the final say about the meeting? spending rationaleFace-to-face, online or hybrid?Working with suppliersVenue choice and achieving your objectivesRoom set-up and achieving your objectivesFood, beverages and mealsBig crowd powerMulti-day meeting programmesSustainabilityArea 3, ParticipantsWho should attend the meeting?Whetting participants' appetites for your meetingUsing diversity to unlock serendipityMeetings for participants from different countriesInteraction? Yes, but for what purpose?Engagement must come to lifeGiving shape to your formatsParticipant what can they tell us?Conducting the meeting programmeManaging clashes of InterestArea 4, ContentSpeakersQ&ASpicing up contentConnecting meeting content to a bigger pictureHow much fun can serious meetings be?Sensitive elephants in the roomOpeningsClosingsRituals and routines in meeting programmes 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.
The Extroduction is written by Martin Sirk.
Area 1, Reasons and Objectives
Why are you holding your meeting?Outcomes, impact and behaviour changeMeeting Information transferMeeting reason networkingMeeting uniting your participantsMeeting motivationMeeting decision-makingMeeting routineDesigning meetings about strategyMaking meetings memorableArea 2, ProductionGetting started the right wayWho has the final say about the meeting? spending rationaleFace-to-face, online or hybrid?Working with suppliersVenue choice and achieving your objectivesRoom set-up and achieving your objectivesFood, beverages and mealsBig crowd powerMulti-day meeting programmesSustainabilityArea 3, ParticipantsWho should attend the meeting?Whetting participants' appetites for your meetingUsing diversity to unlock serendipityMeetings for participants from different countriesInteraction? Yes, but for what purpose?Engagement must come to lifeGiving shape to your formatsParticipant what can they tell us?Conducting the meeting programmeManaging clashes of InterestArea 4, ContentSpeakersQ&ASpicing up contentConnecting meeting content to a bigger pictureHow much fun can serious meetings be?Sensitive elephants in the roomOpeningsClosingsRituals and routines in meeting programmes 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.
The Extroduction is written by Martin Sirk.
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Published November 29, 2022
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