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