CHAPTER 14

Presenting at a Business Meeting

  • What’s wrong with meetings today?
  • How to re-create the employee meeting.
  • Questions to ask when preparing a meeting.
  • Tips to increase participants’ interest and attention.

How many times have you sat in a meeting and said to yourself, “What am I doing here? I have a thousand things to do, and this meeting is a waste of time.” Meetings can consume our business lives and kill productivity. Yet meetings don’t have to be that way. We should treat meetings as if they were presentations and speak to the self-interest of those attending.

Figure 14.1 People are only human!

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