Not Just Another Meeting : Creative Strategies for Facilitation / Rodney Napier and Eli Sharp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Napier, Rodney, author.

Sharf, Eli, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business meetings.

Business planning.

Organizational behavior.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 pages)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Alexandria, VA : ATD Press, [2019]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Create a fresh, intentional approach to meetings When meetings draw employees away from day-to-day tasks but fail to reach their intended outcome, it has huge costs to the organization. All too often, this happens because meetings lack purpose—people gather together to discuss a problem but don’t know how to approach it strategically. Consider that the typical leader spends at least 10 hours a week in meetings with an average of five people. Now, assume each of those individuals is priced out at $100 an hour. That’s $5,000 a week in meeting costs. Multiply that $5,000 by 50 weeks, then by the 10 top executives. The cost? $2.5 million. Of course, leaders dread the thought of one more ineffective meeting, as do most other workers. With preparation and intention, you can turn these wasted opportunities into sessions that fully engage participants and teams. In Not Just Another Meeting: Creative Strategies for Facilitation, you will learn how to be intentional about diagnosing what your team requires from a meeting. By expanding your repertoire of what to do and how to do it, you can respond to any situation with calm, certainty, and creativity. Experienced facilitators and consultants Rodney Napier and Eli Sharp describe 13 classic designs, such as the Future Search, Collapsing Consensus, and Genie in the Bottle. Applying to wide-ranging workplace issues, these designs provide the tools to enable any gathering to solve problems, build trust, and deal with conflict. Accompanying them are animated videos, available online, that allow you to observe exactly how to facilitate each design. This book shines a new light on situations you’ve taken for granted for years. Break out of your old meeting habits—and actually excite the participants of meetings you lead.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Part I. Design and Preparation

1. The Art of Design

2. Intentional Facilitation in Action

3. Creativity, Structure, and Design

4. Facilitation for Organizations and Teams

Part II. Execution

5. Solving Problems and Setting Priorities

6. Building Trust and Engagement

7. Dealing With Conflict

8. Overcoming the Challenges of Virtual Facilitation

Part III. Next Steps

9. Taking Your First Leap

10. Facilitation: Enable, Assist, Expediate, Accelerate

About the Authors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-56286-691-5