Running Great Meetings and Workshops For Dummies

Introduction

Welcome to Running Great Meetings & Workshops For Dummies, a book that will help you get the most out of the time you invest with your colleagues, coworkers, clients or customers.

If you’re reading this book, it’s probably not because you regularly attend lots of fantastically efficient, effective and energising meetings or workshops. But this book is for you if you are keen to make running brilliant meetings and workshops a core skill, and you want people to walk away from events you lead saying, ‘That was fantastic. I can’t believe the time passed so quickly. When are we next getting together?’

Every chapter is designed to help you understand a different aspect of workshops or meetings, from the planning and preparation through to the delivery and follow-up.

The information we present has been honed by years of leading successful meetings and workshops and by making many mistakes along the way. We’ve written about all of it, so you can fast-track your journey to excellence.

About This Book

Reading this book will give you a really solid blueprint for running great meetings and workshops. But reading is a tiny part of the process. Your challenge will be to go away and do some hard work to put it all into practise. That way, you’ll make the fastest progress and get the quickest results while building community, commitment and contribution – for everyone you work with.

This book is written from the point of view of a practitioner – which means it’s professional and ...