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Theres a palpable frustration with the quantity and quality of meetings in the workplace. And new technologies like web conferencing and IM have helped create a frenetic, 24-7 hamster-on-a-wheel environment as people dash from meeting to meeting with little time to think. It gets so bad for Iris, a meetings-inundated VP, that she actually turns into a hamster. In The Hamster Revolution for Meetings, a business fable, Iris meets a coach who introduces her to a straightforward process that helps her eliminate unnecessary meetings, improve meeting quality, and save 15 days a year in previously wasted time. The Hamster Revolution for Meetings is a quick and entertaining read that gives you a number of tools you can use immediately, including a Meeting Quality Wheel that can be used to diagnose and treat 12 key meeting challenges,
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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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