Chapters include: 1: Tools to Help Prepare for the Meeting Is This Meeting Necessary? How to Prepare an Action Agenda… 2: Tools to Help Facilitate the Meeting How to Open a Meeting Communicating in a Video Conference Dealing with Difficult Meeting Participants… Section 3: Tools to Close and Follow-up the Meeting How to Close a Meeting How to Prepare Meeting Notes (not Minutes!) Resources for Improving Your Team Meetings Annotated Bibliography of books, articles, web sites and videos Various Forms and Examples Templates for Meeting Skills Training
Book Details:
- Author: Glenn M. Parker
- ISBN: 9780470245279
- Year Published: 2006
- Pages: 240
- BISAC: BUS000000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/General
About the Book and Topic:
Chapters include: 1: Tools to Help Prepare for the Meeting Is This Meeting Necessary? How to Prepare an Action Agenda… 2: Tools to Help Facilitate the Meeting How to Open a Meeting Communicating in a Video Conference Dealing with Difficult Meeting Participants… Section 3: Tools to Close and Follow-up the Meeting How to Close a Meeting How to Prepare Meeting Notes (not Minutes!) Resources for Improving Your Team Meetings Annotated Bibliography of books, articles, web sites and videos Various Forms and Examples Templates for Meeting Skills Training
AUTHOR PLATFORMS: Glenn Parker is a top consultant and bestselling author of books on team performance. Bob Hoffman is a senior Novartis executive who worked with Parker to implement “meeting excellence” throughout a key Novartis business unit. In a crowded field of throwaway books on business meetings, this volume will stand above the rest. PRACTICAL TOOLS TESTED AT A LEADING GLOBAL COMPANY: This book is the product of a corporate survey in which executives cried out for help to improve meeting quality. Novartis commissioned Parker and Hoffman to create tools the company implemented globally. Their procedures and templates have been tried across a diversity of countries and meeting formats, from videoconferences to multicultural gatherings. GROUNDBREAKING INFORMATION UNAVAILABLE ELSEWHERE: Many meeting books are 10-20 years old and do not reflect the new era of e-mail, webcasting, and multicultural teleconferences. Parker and Hoffman provide not only the advice and guidance on facilitating meetings, but also provide the latest tools and templates for creating meeting invitations and evaluations, as well as taking notes and making presentations using today’s technology. NOVARTIS SUPPORT: The book will be promoted to Novartis management and staff, sales to be channelled to retail.
About the Author
Glenn M. Parker is president of Glenn M. Parker Associates and has helped create high-performance teams at a diverse range of organizations, from pharmaceutical companies such as Novartis and Merck, to industrial organizations such as Pratt & Whitney and Sun Microsystems, to government agencies such as the Coast Guard, and the National Institutes of Health. He is author of Cross-Functional Teams (Jossey-Bass), which has sold over 100,000 copies in various editions. Bob Hoffman is Executive Director for Organizational Development in the Oncology Business Unit of Novartis Pharmaceuticals.