Meetings Matter: 8 Powerful Strategies for Remarkable Conversations - Softcover

Axtell, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0943097142 ISBN 13: 9780943097145

Publisher: Jackson Creek Press, 2015

Synopsis

Chosen as the Best Business Book by the Nonfiction Book Authors, Benjamin Franklin Awards, IndiFab, and Silver Award winner with Nautilus Book Awards and the Eric Hoffer Award. While meetings have become a pain point for millions, Paul Axtell offers a different perspective: that meetings matter and they can be mastered.

In Meetings Matter, Axtell redesigns meetings using the vital foundation of conversation.

With real-life examples and actionable advice, he shows you how to design meetings for results, lead them to achieve agendas that move projects forward, and even allow time to build the relationships that make working together in a remarkable way possible.

This book will revolutionize the meeting, moving it from a dreaded obligation to the most powerful way to get things done in business and in life.

Meetings are at the heart of effective organizations. Each meeting is an opportunity to clarify issues, set direction, sharpen focus, create alignment, and move ambitions forward. We have to change the way we think about meetings, the way we design and lead them, and, most importantly, how we manage what happens between meetings.

Axtell offers eight powerful strategies for fixing our meeting problems, and within each strategy, he provides concrete advice you can put into action immediately such as limiting participants, being vigilant about what gets on the agenda, designing the conversation for each agenda item, and managing the experience for everyone in the room so people leave feeling heard and appreciated.

Further, he explains how meetings can be your primary way to create and maintain your network of relationships.

We go to meetings. A lot of them. So let's put creating and building relationships in front of us as one of the desired outcomes. What would you do differently if you looked at each meeting as an opportunity to add to your network?

About this title

From the Inside Flap

Meetings have become a pain point for millions. Many see them as useless sessions that take time away from meaningful tasks. In his new book, Meetings Matter, Paul Axtell affirms the importance of meetings, and he redesigns them using the vital foundation of conversation. With real-life examples and actionable advice, he shows you how to design meetings for results, lead them to achieve agendas that move projects forward, and even allow time for building the relationships that make working together in a remarkable way possible.

This book will revolutionize the meeting--moving it from that dreaded obligation to a powerful way to get things done in business and in life.

"Working with Paul has greatly improved the performance of my entire organization. In today's matrix environments, the ability to have productive and efficient meetings is critical to the success of the business."

Aaron L. Wetzel, Vice President

Global Crop Care Platform, Deere & Company

About the Author

Paul Axtell provides consulting and personal effectiveness training to a wide variety of clients, from Fortune 500 companies and universities to nonprofit organizations and government agencies. A large focus of his work is how to run effective and productive meetings: to turn them from the calendar items that so many dread into useful, productive sessions with measurable results.

Paul has an engineering degree from South Dakota School of Mines and an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis. He has ten years of engineering manufacturing experience and fifteen years of experience in corporate personnel and training. The last twenty years have been devoted to designing and leading programs that enhance individual and group performance within large organizations.

He is the author of Ten Powerful Things to Say to Your Kids: Creating the Relationship You Want with the Most Important People in Your Life, which applies the concepts of his work to the special relationships between parents and children of all ages. Thus far, it has been translated into Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese, Arabic, French, and Spanish.

He is also the author of Being Remarkable, a small but power-packed collection of action items gleaned from more than thirty years of coaching people toward greater personal effectiveness aimed at developing the awareness that is the beginning of true and lasting change.

In addition to interacting with kids, he loves playing golf, creating ­bonsai trees, fly-fishing, and reading mysteries. Paul lives with his wife, Cindy, in Minneapolis.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jackson Creek Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0943097142
• ISBN 13: 9780943097145
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 372