Harvard Business Review Guides Ultimate Boxed Set (16 Books)
by Harvard Business Review, Nancy Duarte, Bryan A. Garner, Mary Shapiro, Jeff Weiss
Know the Venue and Schedule
Scoping out the room in advance will help you navigate it. If you can’t check it out in person, look for details online or ask the host to describe it. Sometimes, if you get this information early enough, you can change the setup to meet your preferences. If you’re leading an off-site meeting for a team of six, for example, and you’ve been assigned a large conference space, see if you can get a cozier room—or at least a smaller table to encourage discussion.
Don’t make any assumptions about the space. When I was invited to speak to 70 people at Google, in my head I pictured rows of chairs. But when I got there, I was taken to a tiny conference room with 20 people crammed in—and 50 small faces of webcam participants ...
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