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Leading Highly Productive Meetings: How to Facilitate Like A Pro

PDF download 11 pgs.  $17.00

With the average amount of time lost in meetings per month over 30 hours per attendee, the costliness of unproductive meetings is exorbitant. Fortunately however, it doesn’t have to be this way. Indeed meetings can and should be highly productive tools for keeping people focused, getting important problems resolved, making significant improvements—and most of all, keeping your organization competitively viable and productive.

You’ll Learn How To Be a Meeting Pro

In this E-book you’ll learn how to handle difficult meeting participants and stay in control, and you’ll learn the secrets of leading productive meetings that people will derive a lot of benefit from. Plus, you’ll learn how to save a lot of time organizing and preparing for your meetings—as well as little known tricks to getting more done in less time without the usual stress of trying to keep everyone engaged and focused. You’ll gain more confidence when you learn the insights from this information-packed guide.

What You Will Learn or Gain:

1. How to Eliminate Unnecessary Meetings – one of the biggest complaints of people is that the meeting was unnecessary. Learn how to reassess your purpose and design meetings people look forward to attending.
2. 4 Immediate-Impact Techniques To Greatly Increase Meeting Success – meetings don’t have to be boring or pointless, learn rarely-used secrets and time-savers that will super charge your meetings.
3. 6 Ways to Keep Your Meeting On Agenda, On Time!
4. Secrets of Gate Keeping: How to Handle Chatterboxes, Stragglers, Antagonists, Side-trackers and the Silent Types – this is must-know information for any leader or facilitator.
5. Bonus: Meeting Planner Checklist (don’t miss this gem!) – one of Mark’s most popular meeting planning tools that will save you hours of time and triple meeting effectiveness.
6. 10 Proven Tips For Establishing Meeting Standards, Ground Rules & Expectations

Excerpt from page 6…

Gate-keeping: How to Handle Difficult Meeting Participants

Here is a list of five of the most common, challenging people you’re likely to encounter and some helpful strategies in dealing successfully with each:

• Chatterboxes. These individuals, as the name suggests, love to talk. The problem is they do it with those sitting nearby and it’s disruptive and/or delays your meeting.

Strategy: Remind the entire group of their commitment to listen when others have the floor. Ask for cooperation so that the agenda can be accomplished. If that doesn’t work you can pause the discussion and ask them directly, “Is there something you’d like to make comment on?” That usually…

“I personally guarantee your satisfaction. If you use the ideas I offer and you still don’t see any results or benefit after 45 days, I’ll refund your money immediately.”
~ Mark Holmes