CLICK: The Virtual Meetings Book
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How much time does your organization waste in unfocused, unengaging and unproductive virtual meetings? Virtual meetings are on the rise. Unfortunately, most meeting leaders don't know the strategies for executing masterful virtual meetings. As a result, most virtual meetings: • Don't start on time because people have difficulty with the technology • Don't have a defined purpose due to lack of preparation • Don't keep people engaged due to escalated multi-tasking • Don't address conflict because the leader often doesn't see the body language information that communicates silent disagreement • Don't deal with dysfunction because the meeting leader is distracted with the technology CLICK for Strategies CLICK: The Virtual Meetings Book provides meeting leaders with 60 comprehensive strategies for planning and executing masterful virtual meetings. In its twelve chapters, you'll find strategies and answers to these questions and more: • How do you keep engagement high in a virtual meeting? • How do you eliminate unnecessary virtual meetings? • What are the key features that differentiate various online meeting platforms? • How do you reduce the likelihood that your meeting will be derailed by technical issues? • What if only a few people are remote? Or, what if you, the meeting leader, are the only one remote? • How do you ask questions that receive lots of responses instead of that dreaded silence? • What are the common virtual meeting dysfunctions, and how do you prevent them? • How do you make sure you get quality results from every virtual meeting? Authors Michael Wilkinson and Richard Smith, leaders in the #1 meeting facilitation and facilitation training company in the US, show you how to deliver masterful virtual meetings, every time.
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MICHAEL WILKINSON Certified Master Facilitator, Named "Facilitator of the Year" 2003 by SEAF "In my career, I've seen many, many facilitators. He is the best." "He is hands down the most talented facilitator with whom I have ever worked." Comments like these are worth noting, especially when they come from Len Roberts, the former CEO of RadioShack, and Brian Gallagher, the CEO of the United Way Worldwide. Mr. Wilkinson is the Managing Director of Leadership Strategies, Inc. ? the leadership training and strategy consulting firm specializing in group facilitation. He is considered a national leader in the facilitation industry. • Author of The Secrets of Facilitation, The Secrets to Masterful Meetings, and The Executive Guide to Facilitating Strategy. • Board member of the International Institute for Facilitation. • Founder of the National Facilitator Database. • One of the first five Certified Master Facilitators in North America. • Named Facilitator of the Year in 2003 by the Southeast Association of Facilitators. Active in both the private and public sectors, he has provided leadership training and strategy development assistance to such diverse organizations as The Coca-Cola Company, Unisys, Sears, EPA, CDC, the Georgia Society of Association Executives, and the United Way. Mr. Wilkinson is a much sought after facilitator, trainer and speaker, both in the U.S. and around the globe. He has completed international assignments in Bangkok, Brisbane, Glasgow, Hamburg, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Istanbul, London, Melbourne, Milan, the Netherlands, Oxford, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sydney and Wellington. Past participants have commented that his dynamic presentation style, combined with his unique insights, make for an intense, power-packed session. Prior to Leadership Strategies, Mr. Wilkinson spent six years with ADP and eight years in the information technology practice of Ernst & Young's Manage¬ment Consulting Group. He is a High Honors graduate from Dartmouth and resides with his wife and two children in Atlanta, Georgia.
