The Hamster Revolution for Meetings: How to Meet Less and Get More Done (Bk Business)

Meetings have changed. They’re more frequent, virtual, and informal. Yet, most professionals haven’t upgraded their meeting skills. It’s no wonder that 43% of meeting time is wasted. Enter The Hamster Revolution for Meetings : Your guide to effective meetings in the information age -- The perfect book for any professional trying to escape the meeting cage. The Hamster Revolution for Meetings is chock-full of practical advice that really works. You’ll discover tips that keep your meetings productive, on track, and engaging. Included is a landmark case study that shows how 2,000 Capital One associates cut their meeting time by 13% while improving meeting results by 38%. Professionals waste up to a month a year on meetings—costing their companies billions in missed opportunities. The good news? Hope and help are here. The Hamster Revolution is the definitive book for our times. Are meetings taking over your life? You're not alone. Meet Iris, a sales director so overwhelmed by meetings that she feels like a hamster on a wheel—in fact, she's turned into one. Just in time, she meets a coach—a leading meeting efficiency expert—with a simple system that helps her regain her sanity and humanity.The coach's secret is a laser-like focus on the five biggest meeting pain points:1. Meeting overload: Professionals waste twenty-four days a year in useless meetings.2. Missing success ingredients: ninety percent of all professionals attend meetings that lack a clearly stated objective and agenda.3. Virtual-meeting chaos: Disinterested participants + endless technical glitches huge amounts of wasted time.4. Agenda adrift: Goals are missed when meetings veer off course.5. Action distraction: Incomplete action items result in delayed projects and missed deadlines.The coach demonstrates that these five challenges are damaging Iris's career and costing the world over a trillion dollars each year. He provides practical new solutions that rapidly transform Iris from victim to victor. These solutions are tailored to the technology-driven world in which Iris lives—she discovers how to use e-calendars, PDAs, and virtual meetings to make her life easier, not more complicated. She applies the solutions, gets immediate results, and reclaims her life. The Hamster Revolution for Meetings focuses on a small number of high-impact best practices that really work. Included is a landmark case study that shows how 3,000 Capital One associates reclaimed ten days per year while improving meeting effectiveness by over 35 percent. Are meetings taking over your life? Youre not alone. Meet Iris, a sales director so overwhelmed by meetings that she feels like a hamster on a wheelin fact, shes turned into one. Just in time, she meets a coacha leading meeting efficiency expertwith a simple system that helps her regain her sanity and humanity. The coachs secret is a laser-like focus on the five biggest meeting pain 1. Meeting Professionals waste twenty-four days a year in useless meetings. 2. Missing success ninety percent of all professionals attend meetings that lack a clearly stated objective and agenda. 3. Virtual-meeting Disinterested participants + endless technical glitches huge amounts of wasted time. 4. Agenda Goals are missed when meetings veer off course. 5. Action Incomplete action items result in delayed projects and missed deadlines. The coach demonstrates that these five challenges are damaging Iriss career and costing the world over a trillion dollars each year. He provides practical new solutions that rapidly transform Iris from victim to victor. These solutions are tailored to the technology-driven world in which Iris livesshe discovers how to use e-calendars, PDAs, and virtual meetings to make her life easier, not more complicated. She applies the solutions, gets immediate results, and reclaims her life. The Hamster Revolution for Meetings focuses on a small number of high-impact best practices that really work. Included is a landmark case study that shows how 3,000 Capital One associates reclaimed ten days per year while improving meeting effectiveness by over 35 percent. Contents......Page 10 Foreword......Page 12 1 Stuck!......Page 14 2 Liftoff......Page 20 3 The Big Five......Page 24 4 Where Did My Life Go?......Page 28 5 The Art of Meeting Less......Page 32 6 You're Drafted......Page 50 7 Iris Checks In......Page 58 8 Virtual Meeting Magic......Page 60 9 A Slow-Motion Train Wreck......Page 84 10 Becoming a Virtual Meeting Virtuoso......Page 88 11 Staying the Course......Page 104 12 The Meeting Action Plan......Page 116 13 Penny's Verdict......Page 126 Epilogue: We Meet Again......Page 130 Resources: Fast Answers for Busy Hamsters......Page 134 Resources: Case Study: Capital One's Meeting Revolution......Page 140 Notes......Page 144 Acknowlegements......Page 145 B......Page 147 E......Page 148 I......Page 149 M......Page 150 Q......Page 151 V......Page 152 W......Page 153 About the Authors......Page 165 Services......Page 167 About Berrett-Koehler Publishers......Page 168 Are meetings taking over your life? You're not alone. Learn how to cut unnessary meeting time and save 10 days a year and boost effectiveness of meetings by 35%