WE'VE GOT TO START MEETING LIKE
THIS!
How to Get Better Results with Fewer
Meetings
Trade paperback, 192 pages, 5½"x8½"
Copyright 2003
Published by Life Education, Inc.
16.95

About the Author:
Robert Kausen is the author of Customer Satisfaction
Guaranteed, numerous articles and dozens of audio and
video programs. He consults with organizations throughout the
US and Canada to help leaders and managers learn to bring out
the best in themselves and others by getting back to innate
common sense and wisdom.
What others are saying about this book:
"A very unique approach to more productive meetings,
with many tools and good examples that lead to greater
understanding. This understanding applies to a lot more than
meetings."
-- Joe Sanfilippo, Chairman, San Francisco
Institute for Management Studies
"Meetings are meant to be productive, motivating and, at
times, even fun. Most organizational meetings don't come close!
This book gets at the root cause with a remedy that will
dramatically increase the productivity and enjoyment of all
types of meetings. For all those who find themselves having to
attend meetings, this is a must read."
-- Dick Bozian, Director, Employee Training
& Organizational Development, BAE Systems North America
"With this book, you can stop struggling with rules and
techniques. Robert Kausen shows how -- with simply the right
spirit and common sense -- you can easily have meetings that
you only dreamed possible. Even more, you will naturally and
spontaneously apply all the right rules and techniques when
appropriate. Enjoy this book. It's great!" --
Charlie Kiefer, President, Innovation
Associates
Stop Wasting Time in Unproductive
Meetings!
Wouldn't you like to hold meetings that people love to
attend because they get results and leave feeling inspired? If
you've ever wondered if there aren't effective, simple ways to
craft and guide more productive meetings, you have found the
right book! We've Got to Start Meeting Like
This! is brimming with practical, yet eye-opening
insight. You will find the book worth reading many times.
With this book's help, you will realize how simple it is
to:
- Guide the state of mind of attendees so your meetings
are "in the zone" more often than in the doldrums
- Turn battles of opinion into productive
discussions
- Listen effectively so that discussions get to the heart
of matters
- Understand the role of thought in human behavior so you
can bring out the best in people
- Promote better working relationships between meeting
participants
- Intervene to move a meeting from desperation to
inspiration
- Use common sense to simplify and sharpen meeting
notices, minutes and action reminders

WE'VE GOT TO START
MEETING LIKE THIS! How to Get
Better Results with Fewer
Meetings
CONTENTS
Is this Book for You?
1. Another Meeting Book?
0.1. Not Exactly!
A FOUNDATION FOR UNDERSTANDING
02. Reflective
Listening
0.2. Getting to the Heart of
Matters
03. High-Performance
States
.03. From Grace to the
Zone
04. What Goes On
Between the Ears
.04. A Peek Under the
Hood
05. We are Fish in
Water
.05. Invisible
Influences
06. Innate Health,
Common Sense and Creativity
0.6. It's all Natural
07. Tracking the Signs
of High-Performance Thinking
0.7. Built-In Compass
08. What Makes a Good
Meeting?
0.8. Tangible
Intangibles
DYNAMICS
09. Person to
Person 0.9.
Relationship Essentials
10. Conflict Evolution
.10. A Meeting of the
Minds
11.
Decision-Indecision 1.1.
Teeter-Totter of Turmoil
12. Opinions 1.2. Meeting Catapult or
Quagmire?
13. Brainstorming
1.3. Tapping Original
Thought
THE MECHANICS
14. To Meet or Not to Meet?
1.4. A Classic Question Worth
Remembering
15. Who Should Attend?
1.5. Time to Get Off
Automatic
16. Giving Notice 1.6. Starting Off on the Right
Foot
17. Documenting the Meeting
1.7. Brief and to the
Point
IN CONCLUSION
18. Guiding the Meeting
Tone 1.8.
Sensing When and How to Intervene
19. You're It
1.9. What if No One Else
Understands this Stuff?
20. Putting It All
Together 2.0.
It's Just Common Sense
RESOURCES 20. Suggested Meeting
Rules 20.
Resources for Further Learning

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