March 2023
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
22h 46m
English
Say the word in a small group of your colleagues. Go ahead, say it: Meeting. Suggest that your group schedule a meeting; tell them that you think they can resolve the issue they’re discussing by setting up a meeting. Now watch the nonverbal reactions: eyes roll, noses scrunch up, people begin hyperventilating. Eyes that don’t roll begin to glaze over.
You know the reason: no one likes meetings. “Too many of them are a waste of time,” says Marge Boberschmidt. “Too many people walk out of too many meetings feeling that they didn’t accomplish anything.” Boberschmidt is a former public relations executive at AT&T who now runs her own consulting firm – planning meetings. “My greatest ...