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"This practical, comprehensive guide to designing and running more effective meetings will result in less time wasted, more collaborative decision-making, and measurably improved business outcomes. There's nothing more frustrating than an unproductive meeting -- except when it leads to another unproductive meeting. Yet every day millions of people conduct meetings -- in person or online -- without the critical understanding or formal training on how...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Learn strategies for having your meetings be effective and efficient. In today's fast-paced world, it's important to use our time efficiently and a well-run meeting can do just that. Among the topics covered are: The role of the moderator. Setting a workable agenda. Keeping the discussion on topic. Dealing with difficult meeting participants. Thanks to the experts at Library Video Network, new 19 minute training film can help get your meetings on...
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Ugh-meetings. They're where productivity goes to die, right? There has to be a better way. According to leading consultants Dick and Emily Axelrod, there is. Using the same principles that make video games so engaging and that transformed the numbing assembly line into the dynamic shop floor, the Axelrods outline a flexible and adaptable system used to run truly productive meetings in all kinds of organizations-meetings where people create concrete...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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How many meeting minutes are wasted due to ineffective or untrained Chairs? Destructive arguments, poor attendee behaviour, lack of summarising and bad structure are the most common complaints people have given us as the result of poor chairing skills. Our research has shown that we can waste one day a month in unproductive meetings. Our research has shown that poor Chairing skills are one of the major factors. Causes can be: meetings starting late,...
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You know those subtle tricks your coworkers are all guilty of? The constant nodding, pretend concentration, useless rhetorical questions? These tricks make them seem like they know what they're doing when in fact they have no clue. This behavior is so ingrained, so subtle, and so often mistaken for true intelligence that identifying it, calling it out, or compiling it into an exhaustive digest has never been attempted. Until now. Complete with illustrated...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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A trigger series to practise taking minutes and notes. A program designed to develop memory and recall, learning to take notes and minutes, as well as improving writing skills. Ideal for office employees, support staff and anyone who attends a meeting and is required to take minutes. The six segments provide viewers with situations so they can practise taking minutes. This program is designed to be used for groups and individuals training to take...
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Frederick Fell Publishers, Inc. / Independent Publishers Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Yes, you can conduct a well-organized, well-structured, and totally effective meeting! Whether you belong to a committee, a club a caucus; whether you are a community affairs activist, sit on the board of directors, are a stockholder, a shareholder, or the president of the local PTA - this simplified book of parliamentary procedure will guide you through the rigors of meetings with clarity and ease.
Parliamentary procedure is the key to the power...
10) Facilitating Breakthrough: How to Remove Obstacles, Bridge Differences, and Move Forward Together
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"Making progress on complex, problematic situations requires a new approach to working together: transformative facilitation, a structured and creative process for removing the obstacles to fluid forward movement. It is becoming less straightforward for people to move forward together. They face increasing complexity and decreasing control. They need to work with more people from across more divides. In such situations, the most common ways of advancing...
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Morgan James Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"One of the most powerful professional speakers in America . reveals how he's earned millions onstage, on camera and in business" (Steve Siebold, CSP, past chairman of The National Speakers Association's Million Dollar Speakers Group). If you look at the trends of over thirty years ago in fashion, technology, architecture, and any other industry, what was cutting edge back then has become cliché and grossly out of date now. But in the speaking industry,...
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English
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Sensitive to a diversity of cultures, locations, and personalities, this remote facilitation method can make virtual meetings even more powerful than in-person ones.
Many people struggle with remote meetings: a cocktail of factors, such as technical barriers and invisible group norms, increase the uncertainty and risk of the already vulnerable task of collaborating and sharing ideas. When remote meetings go badly, they go really badly. Few things...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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A versatile resource to study meeting facilitation and/or practise taking minutes. See a typical meeting in progress with Sadhana, the team leader and six participants of various ages, nationalities and communication styles. The group discusses quality and delivery issues, team breakfasts and schedules - not always agreeing.
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Morgan James Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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The definitive guide to powerful presentations: "If you want to thrive as a speaker, read this book" (Les Brown). How do you keep your audience on the edge of their seats and turn your presentations into profits? Here, dozens of industry professionals provide real-life examples and case studies on how to ... * Craft an unforgettable message that hits home * Deliver your speech in a way that keeps your audience engaged * Sell your message so your audience...
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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"A Volume of the Business Analysis Essential Library Series The heart of the business analyst's role is to drive various constituencies through processes to achieve consensus on the needs of the business. Successfully facilitating meetings -- whether a one-on-one interview or a larger presentation -- is essential to business analysis. The Art and Power of Facilitation: Running Powerful Meetings provides powerful tools that the business analyst can...
16) Webinar Master
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Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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A step-by-step guide to delivering compelling online presentations from a webinar expert and coach. We've all attended dry, forgettable webinars, but few people know the secrets of truly engaging audiences online. In Webinar Master, Donald H. Taylor shares his methodology for delivering great webinars, consistently, distilled from his experience coaching hundreds of speakers since 2007. Taylor dissects the traps awaiting inexperienced presenters,...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2004
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English
Description
College dean and prominent historian Jean Sheridan heads to her hometown of Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, where she is slated to be honored at her twenty-year class reunion, not realizing she is the target of a former classmate who has concocted a plan to get even with all the people who tortured him as a youth.
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G&D Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"... A LEARNING EXPERIENCE THAT CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER." -BRIAN TRACY The author of the best-selling 30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary, Dan Strutzel, now puts his focus on communicating successfully in the business world! Business is just like any sector or topic, with its own language, customs, codes, and terminologies. Different aspects of business can have their own distinctive terminology, which can also overlap. In 30 Days to a More...
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Atlantic Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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We have interviewed event planners and professionals who have held more than their share of conferences, workshops, and seminars, and they've shared their successes, and failures, to help you achieve, and avoid, the same things. With the tips for creating distinct content and engaging your audience in this book, your workshop, seminar, or conference will leave people wanting more.
20) Elvis & Nixon
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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The story of the infamous meeting between Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon in 1970, which was immortalized in the most requested phonograph in the National Archives.
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