Boring Meetings Suck: Get More Out of Your Meetings, or Get Out of More Meetings

What's in It for You?

I'm on a mission to get everyone on the Bore No More! band-wagon. I want good meetings to be great; I want unnecessary meetings to stop; and when they're not productive, I want to show you how to fix them or get out of them gracefully.

This book is for you if:

• You're a meetings expert looking to improve your already stellar meeting performance and enhance client meetings with new ideas and methods.
• Your organization needs an easy reference blueprint for more effective meetings.
• You and your team want to stop wasting time with poorly planned and administered meetings.
• You're willing to step up and take responsibility for every meeting you're in, even if you're not hosting it.
• You're among the millions upon millions who see that boring meetings suck the energy, time, creativity, and even profit out of our organizations—and want to change that.

When you take the Agenda Items to heart, you'll learn:

• How to excuse yourself from a meeting without losing your job.
• Three polite, proactive ways to motivate people to “wrap it up.”
• Why you and others should turn your phones on in meetings.
• Quips and tips to make your presentation powerful, not pointless.
• Essential elements for planning large meetings or conferences.
• New techniques that will enable you to run “Get In, Get It Done, and Get Out” meetings.
• How to be the hero of your meetings, have people show up on time, participate fully, and applaud your efforts as they return to their desks with extra time in their ...