Make Meetings Work

Great Meetings are great! They enable the organization to reach their goals quicker, with more energi and efficiency. Unfortunately, there are too few great meetings.

Half of all internal meetings are inefficient, energi-draining and confusing. They lack clear purpose and goals and are even contraproductive.

Make Meetings Work is the most concrete and practical book you will find, on how to prepare and run internal meetings that bring value to the business. Discover the most common pitfalls, and then get 3 tips on each, on how to do them better.

This guide is mostly for you who lead/run/facilitate meetings even though anyone who participate in meetings will benefit from the insights.

If you want to use internal meetings as the business enablers they should be, start reading now.

Content

1. Before before
   1. Facts about meetings
   2. Why does it look like that?
   3. The value if we do it right
2. About the purpose and goals
   1. First, the purpose
3. About the agenda
   1. Design your agenda
4. About the invitation
   1. Rules for the invitation
5. During
6. About the moments just before the meeting starts
   1. Get a good start
7. About the start of the meeting
   1. About meeting norms and rules
   2. About communicating at the meeting
   3. About inspiration
   4. About supporting tools/aids
   5. Ice breakers, warm-ups, energisers and other group exercises
   6. About group dynamics
   7. About decision making
   8. About ending the meeting
8. After
   1. What you do when the meeting is over
9. Afterword