MEETINGS MATTER: 8 POWERFUL STRATEGIES FOR REMARKABLE CONVERSATIONS
Book ID/图书代码： 03235015B83732
English Summary/英文概要： Chosen as the Best Business Book by the Nonfiction Book Authors, Benjamin Franklin Awards, IndiFab, and Silver Award winner with Nautilus Book Awards and the Eric Hoffer Award. While meetings have become a pain point for millions, Paul Axtell offers a different perspective: that meetings matter and they can be mastered.
In Meetings Matter, Axtell redesigns meetings using the vital foundation of conversation.
With real-life examples and actionable advice, he shows you how to design meetings for results, lead them to achieve agendas that move projects forward, and even allow time to build the relationships that make working together in a remarkable way possible.
This book will revolutionize the meeting, moving it from a dreaded obligation to the most powerful way to get things done in business and in life.
Meetings are at the heart of effective organizations. Each meeting is an opportunity to clarify issues, set direction, sharpen focus, create alignment, and move ambitions forward. We have to change the way we think about meetings, the way we design and lead them, and, most importantly, how we manage what happens between meetings.
Axtell offers eight powerful strategies for fixing our meeting problems, and within each strategy, he provides concrete advice you can put into action immediately such as limiting participants, being vigilant about what gets on the agenda, designing the conversation for each agenda item, and managing the experience for everyone in the room so people leave feeling heard and appreciated.
Further, he explains how meetings can be your primary way to create and maintain your network of relationships.
We go to meetings. A lot of them. So let’s put creating and building relationships in front of us as one of the desired outcomes. What would you do differently if you looked at each meeting as an opportunity to add to your network?
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书被非虚构类图书作者协会选为最佳商业类图书，还曾获得包括Benjamin Franklin奖、IndiFab奖等在内的多个奖项。当开会对于数以百万计的人变得非常痛苦时，Paul Axtell给出了不一样的角度：开会有意义，而且可以掌控。
在本书中，Axtell以对话为基础重新设计了会议的模式。
书中包括现实生活中的例子以及可行的建议，展现了如何以结果为导向设计会议，在会议过程中能够推进预期项目，甚至有时间建立起互相的关联，从而更好地合作。
本书对于会议而言可谓革命性的，将之从令人恐惧的责任变为有效的方式来完成该做的事情，无论对工作还是生活都是如此。
会议对于有效的组织而言是必须的。每一场会议都是一个机会，可以澄清事实、确定方向、决定关注、创造联系和鼓动士气。我们需要改变自己想到会议的方式、设计会议和导向会议的方式，最重要的是组织会议议程的方式。
Axtell提出了八条策略可以修正会议过程中的所有问题，每一条都是实用的建议，能够立即付诸实践的，比如限制参加人数、精选议程、针对每一项会议内容设计对话等等。此外，他还解释了会议如何能够成为最重要的维持关系网的方式。(LYR)
Awards/获奖情况：会议有各种各样的形式和规格。无论是偶遇、非正式的聚会或者正式的集会，你如何和别人沟通、作出反应和抓住讨论的机会都会影响最终的结果。在这本构架精良的作品中，Paul Axtell呈现了八条策略能够涵盖会务过程中大家关心的各个方面。Axtell的策略通过核心想法、实用建议等等形式呈现，能够方便地将这些策略用来提高工作上和个人交往上的互动。此外书中还有如何建立良好关系的练习、问卷和评估，更有方便实用的核对清单。（Success Magazine，2015年一月刊）
能够与Paul合作大幅提高了我公司的绩效表现。在今日，能够组织有效、有成果的会议对于任何商业活动的成功都是非常关键的。（Aaron L. Wetzel，全球企业关怀平台副总裁）
Meetings come in all shapes and sizes. Whether it s a chance encounter, an informal get-together or an official gathering, the way you interact, react and handle the discussion majorly impacts the results. In his well-organized, thorough and sensible approach to the art of communication, consultant and conversational skills trainer Paul Axtell presents eight strategies that cover everything from choosing a perspective to deciding what matters and who cares.
Working with Paul has greatly improved the performance of my entire organization.... In today’s matrix environments, the ability to have productive and efficient meetings is critical to the success of the business.--Aaron L. Wetzel, Vice President, Global Crop Care Platform, Deere & Company
About the Author/作者介绍： Paul Axtell为大量客户提供咨询和有效的培训，客户包括财富500强企业、大学、非盈利机构和政府机关等等。他的工作重心在于如何组织有效的、有结果的会议。
Paul拥有南达科塔矿业学校的工程学学位，以及华盛顿大学圣路易斯分校的MBA文凭。他曾在工程建筑行业工作十年，并在企业人事和培训方面拥有十五年的经验。过去二十年中他致力于为大企业机构设计和领导与促进个人和团队表现相关的项目。
他著有一系列书籍，包括《Ten Powerful Things to Say to Your Kids: Creating the Relationship You Want with the Most Important People in Your Life》、《Being Remarkable》等。业余生活中他乐于和孩子们沟通，喜欢打高尔夫、盆栽、钓鱼和阅读侦探小说。他和妻子Cindy住在Minneapolis。
Paul Axtell provides consulting and personal effectiveness training to a wide variety of clients, from Fortune 500 companies and universities to nonprofit organizations and government agencies. A large focus of his work is how to run effective and productive meetings: to turn them from the calendar items that so many dread into useful, productive sessions with measurable results.
Paul has an engineering degree from South Dakota School of Mines and an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis. He has ten years of engineering manufacturing experience and fifteen years of experience in corporate personnel and training. The last twenty years have been devoted to designing and leading programs that enhance individual and group performance within large organizations.
He is the author of Ten Powerful Things to Say to Your Kids: Creating the Relationship You Want with the Most Important People in Your Life, which applies the concepts of his work to the special relationships between parents and children of all ages. Thus far, it has been translated into Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese, Arabic, French, and Spanish.
He is also the author of Being Remarkable, a small but power-packed collection of action items gleaned from more than thirty years of coaching people toward greater personal effectiveness aimed at developing the awareness that is the beginning of true and lasting change.
In addition to interacting with kids, he loves playing golf, creating -bonsai trees, fly-fishing, and reading mysteries. Paul lives with his wife, Cindy, in Minneapolis.
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