Discover how to unleash the full potential of your meetings
Inefficient meetings plague even the most well-run organizations. In 50 Activities to Kickstart Your Meetings, productivity and games expert Sivasailam Thiagarajan explains how to use fifty tried-and-true methods to get the most out of every meeting.
This book teaches the strategy of employing games, activities, and simulations to facilitate extraordinary meeting productivity and creativity. It teaches meeting planners and organizers how to use games and simulations to enhance all types of meetings:
* Understand organizational opportunities and problems
* Generate alternative ideas
* Transform ideas into decisions
* Translate decisions into actions
Written for managers and executives at all levels of governmental, non-profit, and for-profit organizations, 50 Activities to Kickstart Your Meetings transforms traditional meetings into engines of creativity and growth. Thiagarajan uses the extensive experience he has gained in consulting for companies like Google and JP Morgan to teach managers of all stripes how to supercharge their next meeting.
Autorentext
DR. SIVASAILAM "THIAGI" THIAGARAJAN is the Resident Mad Scientist at The Thiagi Group, where he specializes in effective and enjoyable performance improvement. Thiagi's clients have included leading organizations like AT&T, Chevron, and Intel. He is internationally recognized as an expert in multinational collaboration and active learning in organizations.
Klappentext
Infuse creativity, collaboration, and optimism into every meeting
Dr. Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan is an internationally recognized expert in effective group communication. He is known for engaging diverse participants at some of the world's leading organizations. In 50 Activities to Kickstart Your Meetings, Thiagi reveals his most effective "Group Performance Support" toolstried and tested activities that will get your meeting participants thinking, talking, and collaborating like never before.
We aren't born knowing how to lead and participate effectively in meetings. Our meeting participants want to engage and generate results just as much as we dobut first we need to teach them how. This book's enjoyable activities will help people reach their collaborative potential, and they'll have fun doing it!
Whether you are facilitating meetings with 2 people or 200 people (or more!), and whether you have 2 minutes or 2 hours to fill, this book has an activity to fit. Get your participants engaged and turn them into active stakeholders in all aspects of the meeting processfrom morale building and inclusivity to more productive discussions and creative collaboration, 50 Activities to Kickstart Your Meetings covers it all. An indispensable resource for anyone who wants to transform meetings into engines of creativity and growth!
Zusammenfassung
Discover how to unleash the full potential of your meetings
Inefficient meetings plague even the most well-run organizations. In 50 Activities to Kickstart Your Meetings, productivity and games expert Sivasailam Thiagarajan explains how to use fifty tried-and-true methods to get the most out of every meeting.
This book teaches the strategy of employing games, activities, and simulations to facilitate extraordinary meeting productivity and creativity. It teaches meeting planners and organizers how to use games and simulations to enhance all types of meetings:
- Understand organizational opportunities and problems
- Generate alternative ideas
- Transform ideas into decisions
- Translate decisions into actions
Written for managers and executives at all levels of governmental, non-profit, and for-profit organizations, 50 Activities to Kickstart Your Meetings transforms traditional meetings into engines of creativity and growth. Thiagarajan uses the extensive experience he has gained in consulting for companies like Google and JP Morgan to teach managers of all stripes how to supercharge their next meeting.
Inhalt
1 Memorable Meetings 1
2 Wishes 5
3 Reduction 9
4 Whispers 13
5 Boring and Useless 15
6 Optimism 19
7 The Worst Fear 23
8 Cancel This Meeting 27
9 Dysfunctional Meetings 31
10 Worries 35
11 Ground Rules 39
12 Walk the Talk 51
13 Guaranteed Results 55
14 Explain and Apply 59
15 Arrangement 63
16 Application Examples 69
17 Popular and Unique 73
18 Bias Buster 77
19 Rotating Perspectives 81
20 Number Series 85
21 $20 Auction 89
22 A Sentence About Me 93
23 Remember the Rules 97
24 Combined Tasks 103
25 Seven Sentences 107
26 Trick Questions 111
27 Subjective or Objective 115
28 Unlearn 119
29 Disrupt 123
30 Disruptive Behaviors 127
31 Roles 133
32 Effective Meeting Participant 137
33 Paper Balls 141
34 Nametags 145
35 Finding Partners 149
36 First Touch 153
37 Back to Back 157
38 Co-Creation 161
39 Discuss 165
40 Secret Mentors 169
41 Creativity Collaboration 173
42 Working the Room 177
43 Inclusion 181
44 Who Wrote That? 185
45 Meeting Types 189
46 Agenda Items 193
47 Sarcastic Definitions 197
48 A Historic Meeting 201
49 Behind the Back 207
50 The End 211
Acknowledgments 215
About the Author 217
Index 219