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The Hamster Revolution for Meetings

Author Tim Burress , Mike Song , Vicki Halsey
Release Date: 2009/06/01
ISBN: 9781605090085
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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.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. More Praise for The Hamster Revolution for Meetings
  5. Foreword Ken Blanchard
  6. 1 STUCK!
  7. 2 LIFTOFF
  8. 3 THE BIG FIVE
  9. 4 WHERE DID MY LIFE GO?
  10. 5 THE ART OF MEETING LESS
  11. 6 YOU’RE DRAFTED
  12. 7 IRIS CHECKS IN
  13. 8 VIRTUAL MEETING MAGIC
  14. 9 A SLOW-MOTION TRAIN WRECK
  15. 10 BECOMING A VIRTUAL MEETING VIRTUOSO
  16. 11 STAYING THE COURSE
  17. 12 THE MEETING ACTION PLAN
  18. 13 PENNY’S VERDICT
  19. EPILOGUE WE MEET AGAIN
  20. RESOURCES FAST ANSWERS FOR BUSY HAMSTERS
  21. RESOURCES CASE STUDY: CAPITAL ONE’S MEETING REVOLUTION
  22. Notes
  23. Acknowledgements
  24. Index
  25. About the Authors
  26. SERVICES AVAILABLE
  27. About Berrett-Koehler Publishers
  28. Be Connected
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