Successful Business Meetings
Tomorrow could be the best business meeting of your life
An eBook by Kevin Rossiter © 2006
Contents
Chapter 1 – The Principles of Successful Business Meetings
Opening Statement
Why Meetings Matter
What is a Meeting?
Why do we have Meetings?
Examples of Business Meetings
When is a Meeting not a Meeting?
What Successful Meetings will do for You
Don’t Look Greedy
How Ordinary Meetings become Successful Meetings
What is a Great Idea?
Added-Value vs the Great Idea
Creating an Atmosphere where Great Ideas can Happen
Creating Excitement for Progress
How do you decide on a Vision
Catching the Lightning when it Strikes
Cementing the Idea – The Action Plan
After the Meeting
Summary
Chapter 2 – What to do when they won’t agree
Dealing with Reluctance – 1 – They’re Not Telling you Why
Dealing with Reluctance – 2 – Blocked Vision
Dealing with Reluctance – 3 – The Wafflers vs the Flip Chart
What does the Best Idea look like?
We must have a Strategy – or must we?
Dealing with Limited Resources – 1 – The No Money Story
What kind of believer are you?
Dealing with Limited Resources – 2 – Solving the problem together
Chapter 3 – Before the Meeting
Successful Business Meetings – Overview
You and Your Lifestyle
Setting up the Meeting – Setting the Agenda
Planning v Preparation
Knowing the Enemy
When the Meeting starts
Forming, Storming, Norming & Performing
Setting the Preconditions for Creativity
How often are Great Ideas required?
Using a Flip Chart
Making Presentations with Multimedia
How to challenge others
When people behave badly
What if Your Ideas are Continually Unsupported?
Chapter 5 – Asserting yourself
Getting the Successful Meeting Habit
Take the Initiative – it’s your Meeting
Wrapping up
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