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Meetings don’t have to be painfully inefficient snoozefests—if you design them. Meeting Design will teach you the design principles and innovative approaches you’ll need to transform meetings from boring to creative, from wasteful to productive. Meetings can and should be indispensable to your organization; Kevin Hoffman will show you how to design them for success.
Price: $28.49
$44.99
Pages: 232
Publisher: Rosenfeld Media
Imprint: Two Waves Books
Publication Date:
15 March 2018
ISBN: 9781933820385
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Communication / Meetings & Presentations, Management & management techniques, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Workplace Culture, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Development, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management Science, Business communication & presentation, Organizational theory & behaviour, Working patterns & practices
"I would like Kevin Hoffman to design not only my meetings but also probably my entire life."
—Kristina Halvorson, CEO, Brain Traffic and coauthor, Content Strategy for the Web
"At last, a book that acknowledges meetings as a design problem. Read this. Learn it. Put it into practice. Then thank the author when your group work soars."
—Sunni Brown, best-selling author and Chief Human Potentialist
"Want to run meetings that are both productive and fun? This book is for you!"
—Andy Budd, Owner and Director of Clearleft
"In Kevin Hoffman’s hands, business meetings become a powerful tool of design."
—Jeffrey Zeldman, Founder, studio.zeldman and A List Apart
"There''s meeting your maker, and then there's making your meeting. Kevin Hoffman dives deep, offering myriad ways to design good meetings."
—Molly Wright Steenson, Associate Professor, School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University
"I kid you not: the last meeting I was in that Kevin facilitated, people teared up at the end because of how transformative our time together was. When's the last time you could say that about any of your meetings?"
— Dan Mall, Founder and Director, SuperFriendly
—Kristina Halvorson, CEO, Brain Traffic and coauthor, Content Strategy for the Web
"At last, a book that acknowledges meetings as a design problem. Read this. Learn it. Put it into practice. Then thank the author when your group work soars."
—Sunni Brown, best-selling author and Chief Human Potentialist
"Want to run meetings that are both productive and fun? This book is for you!"
—Andy Budd, Owner and Director of Clearleft
"In Kevin Hoffman’s hands, business meetings become a powerful tool of design."
—Jeffrey Zeldman, Founder, studio.zeldman and A List Apart
"There''s meeting your maker, and then there's making your meeting. Kevin Hoffman dives deep, offering myriad ways to design good meetings."
—Molly Wright Steenson, Associate Professor, School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University
"I kid you not: the last meeting I was in that Kevin facilitated, people teared up at the end because of how transformative our time together was. When's the last time you could say that about any of your meetings?"
— Dan Mall, Founder and Director, SuperFriendly
Part 1. The Theory and Practice of Meeting Design
- Chapter 1. How to Design a Meeting
- Chapter 2. The Design Constraint of All Meetings
- Chapter 3. Build Agendas Out of Ideas, People, and Time
- Chapter 4. Manage Conflict with Facilitation
- Chapter 5. Facilitation Strategy and Style
- Chapter 6. Better Meetings Lead to Better Organizations
- Chapter 7. Get Started with Beginning Meetings
- Chapter 8. Chart the Course Using Middle Meeting
- Chapter 9. Find Closure with End Meetings