The Hamster Revolution for Meetings: How to Meet Less and Get More Done

Mike Song,Vicki Halsey,Tim Burress

The Hamster Revolution for Meetings: How to Meet Less and Get More Done
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler
Country
United States
Published
26 June 2009
Pages
168
ISBN
9781605090078

The Hamster Revolution for Meetings: How to Meet Less and Get More Done

Mike Song,Vicki Halsey,Tim Burress

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.

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