The Meeting Book

10 Minutes a Week to great Meetings Description This book is written to improve your meetings through impacts on specific areas including: preparation, participation, facilitation, logistics and follow-up. Improving your meeting expertise will make you more valuable to your organization, be more effective and feel better about your contributions. Meetings are everywhere in modern organizations because no one has found a better way to get business done. Yet people who attend or even facilitate meetings also complain that they are wasteful, de-energizing and demotivating. 10 Minutes a Week to great Meetings is written to improving your meetings and has two primary parts. Part 1 is the 10 Minutes a Week to Great Meetings training plan. This section is organized as a short 10 minute a week course in the basics of running, organizing and participating in meetings. Each of the 10 lessons focuses on one aspect of the effective meeting. When a group goes through the 10 lessons their meetings will be more effective and far more energetic. Part 2 is the Meeting Idea Book. This section takes the 10 lessons and expands them to include background, additional ideas, best practices from top organizations and extensive checklists of ideas, strategies and tactics.