Meeting Excellence: 33 Tools to Lead Meetings That Get Results

By Robert Hoffman and Glenn M. Parker

Meeting Excellence is a comprehensive resource that provides a wide range of ready-to-use tools that have been developed and tested by a meeting initiative within Novartis Pharmaceuticals. It is based on years of research observing team meetings, examining existing meeting documents, and conducting a number of intensive individual interviews in the U.S. and Europe. This important book offers the information and tools needed to prepare, facilitate, and follow up on all your meetings. Step by step, Meeting Excellence shows how to

•   Create an action-focused meeting agenda
•   Ensure that everyone participates in discussion
•   Deal with disruptive and inattentive people
•   Develop a climate of trust among meeting participants
•   Create and deliver effective meeting presentations
•  Stay on track to achieve your meeting goals
•  Achieve clear communication during a multicultural meeting
• Liven up a dreary and unproductive meeting
• Close your meeting on an upbeat and positive note
• Get action on team action items
•   Improve meeting communications with line management
• Evaluate your meeting quickly and effectively
• Choose among various web-based meeting tools

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wiley
• Release date: Jun 12, 2006
• ISBN: 9780787983550

Robert Hoffman

Dr. Robert Hoffman graduated from Harvard University in 1971 with a PhD in Biology - Professor James D. Watson was a member on his thesis committee. He did post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Hoffman also trained at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry in Moscow, where he was a U.S. National Academy of Sciences/Soviet Academy of Science Exchange Scholar. It was at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry that he produced the first-DNA-liposomes, a work leading to the opening of the field of gene therapy. Dr. Hoffman have been a faculty member at the UCSD School of Medicine since 1979 where he is currently a Professor of Surgery. He founded the biotechnology company, AntiCancer, Inc., in 1984 and has been the President and CEO since then. He has published almost 800 scientific papers, which have been cited more than 30,000 times over a 51-year scientific career. Dr. Hoffman has received the Sun Lee Award of 2016 from the International Society for Experimental Microsurgery for “outstanding, pioneering and great contributions to the progress of experimental microsurgery”. He is a pioneer in the development of fluorescence-guided surgery.