This Meeting Sux, 12 Acts of Courage to Change Meetings for Good.. Many of us are frustrated with our leaders at all levels.  We are realizing that it is time to take intentional acts of leadership ourselves, even when we are not in charge.

This is the first practical guide that contains the knowledge, skills, and action steps that you, as a meeting participant, can use to change meetings for good. . Bring this timely information and a willingness to “act now” in your meetings, and you will be a formidable force for change in your organization.

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Staying Healthy in Sick Organizations: The Clover Practice™., by Kathleen Paris. The Clover Practice™ offers less stress and more peace of mind at the end of the work day. The practice comes from Paris’s 20-plus years as a management consultant and, like a clover, consists of three principles:

Tell the Truth, Always
Speak for Yourself
Declare Your Interdependence

All three of these principles are simple, but not easy to live. Paris says, “If peace of mind is the aim, we need to be truthful even when it’s not convenient and even when we don’t look too good. White lies even compromise our integrity and the degree to which others trust us. This doesn’t mean we say everything that comes to mind. We don’t have to share our opinions on everything. They are just our opinions, after all, and not eternal truths.”

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Facilitating at a Distance--The Essentials of Teleclass and Virtual Meeting Facilitation. Have you considered offering a teleclass as a more efficient way to deliver training, enhance group learning and generate more income for your business?  Or, are you working with a distributed team that requires you to design and facilitate virtual meetings?

When done right, Teleclasses and Virtual Meetings (T/VM) are very effective and inexpensive ways to train, collaborate, and problem-solve. But if they aren't effectively facilitated, T/VM's can be a boring waste of time! This ebook covers all the elements of T/VM facilitation using a simple, well-organized, and proven experiential approach. This book is for anyone who would like to facilitate, manage, teach, mediate, coach, counsel, or direct any group using teleconferences in their business. ==> preview

The Facilitator's Checklist Collection. Running a group can get complicated and there's lots to forget. These handy checklists can really help refresh your memory and add to your effectiveness in no time.

This ebook contains over 25 Checklists on many aspects of facilitation such as agenda development, intervention, participation, processing, etc. ==> preview

The Facilitation Models Collection. A good model that fits your style of leadership and your particular situation can be priceless. It's like finding a map you've been searching for and finally finding it.

This 30-page collection contains 20 models on practically every aspect of group facilitation including decision-making, communication, intervention, teamwork, training, and more. ==> preview

The Facilitator Questions Collection. This 35-page collection contains 20 sets of questions grouped according to the many themes upon which groups typically focus. Use these lists in preparation for working with a group or use them as catalysts for the development of your own questions.

Getting Full Participation ebook. This Facilitator Guide explores Getting Full Participation more completely than any other document we've seen.

- No fluff! This guide is practical, easy to read, with ideas and actions you can use right away.
- Includes a full training license so that you can teach this material to others.
- Includes tools and perspectives that will help your group members understand what it means to participate fully.
- Illustrated 25-page guide will help you to drill down deep and master the art of facilitating Full Participation in any situation.
- This information-packed guide is a must to include in your personal Facilitator's Toolkit.
- Includes 3 bonuses including an audio portion that answers real world problems in getting Full Participation from group members.

Intervene With Confidence ebook. According to our readers, and in our own experience, Group "Intervention" is one of the most challenging skills to develop as a facilitator. So, we are especially pleased to announce the release of our second Facilitator Guides for Group Intervention.

- "Intervene With Confidence" is practical, easy to read, with models, tips, and strategies you can use right away.
- Includes an audio portion that answers real world problems around Intervention.
- Includes models that will help you decide when and when not to Intervene, how deep to Intervene, and how to Intervene gracefully.
- Illustrated 33-page guide will help you to drill down deep and master the art of Intervention in any situation.
- This information-packed guide is a must to include in your personal Facilitator's Toolkit.

Becoming a Learning Facilitator ebook. 55-page ebook packed with useful models, strategies, and approaches to enlivening your approach to teaching and training based on an Integral Learning Model.
- Learning Content. Explores the context and scope of learning content.
- The Learning Facilitator. Explores role distinctions, making the shift from director to guide, core values of the learning facilitator, getting full participation, and a trainer self-assessment.
- Learning Models. Examines 8 different learning models to help round out the delivery of learning based on perspectives and learning styles.
- Learning Culture. Explores the elements required to develop a "Learning Culture."
- Learning Strategies. Examines 4 different learning strategies: the Kolb Learning Cycle, Instruction Events, Socratic Method, and Open Space Technology.

Master Worker Ebooklet. No matter what field you're in or select in the future, there are foundational skills, also known as "core competencies," that, once in place, position you to learn about and to excel in anything you choose. This ebook offers tips on the following 16 "core" competencies that best position you for success in the workplace:
- Customer Service And Public Relations
- Basic Business Principles
- Workplace Standards/Requirements
- Problem-Solving/Decision-Making
- Responsibility
- Project And Time Management
- Teamwork
- Motivation
- Integrity
- Respect For Others
- Listening
- Writing
- Public Speaking
- Conflict Resolution
- Self Esteem
- Stress Management

The Authentic Marketer ebook. A marketing approach for personal growth business owners based on the following five empowering frameworks whose primary focus is on the inner workings of you, the marketer :

- Poise: Relating From Your Authentic Self. "As Within So Without," as you work with your Inner Self, your outer world changes profoundly.

- Path: Following Your Natural Attractions. You'll recognize your path by the feeling you get when you're on it and when you're not.

- Purposeful Creation: Making Stuff Up. When we combine the action of making stuff up with the intention to be authentic, we give birth to the best of what we have to offer.

- Perseverance: Mastering The Energy of Money. The relationship between marketing and making money is crucial to your persevering on the Authentic Marketing Path.

- Practice: Operating Within Authentic Marketing Frameworks. This involves integrating and practicing the Authentic Marketing Frameworks as a new personal operating system.

Partner Products

Meeting Mentor Software Tool from Mindsights

Successful Teams …  Need Successful Meetings. MindSights Meeting Mentor empowers any meeting leader with professional facilitation skills to run successful meetings, every time.    

The Growing Need for Quality Meetings

Patrick Lencioni, author of the popular book Death by Meeting says; “As more of what people do takes place in teams, meetings become the setting in which the really important work gets done. Team and organizational success is becoming more dependant on the quality of its meetings.”

The Meeting Productivity Crisis

The book “How to Make Meeting Work” was written by Michael Doyle over 40 years ago. Yet, current studies still show up to 30% of meetings are unproductive. This equates to over $11 billion dollars of lost US productivity each year.  So what’s the solution?

The Meeting Productivity Solution

Running effective meeting can be very difficult.  But as professional meeting facilitators knows, the critical success factor is NOT about preparing an Agenda but about running the meeting as a Process and elevating meeting participants thinking effectiveness. Skilled meeting leaders do this by using four facilitation skills:

1. Finding the right 2-3 critical questions to ask meeting participants.
2. Bringing the right “cognitive” tools to the meeting.
3. Clearly identifying the meeting purpose and outcomes.
4. Facilitating meeting process and flow.

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MMM emulates how skilled meeting leaders function and empowers any meeting leader with these same facilitation skills needed to run successful meetings – every time.

This unique self-mentoring software product can benefit you in the following ways.

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3. Jump-start any meeting leaders planning with pre-developed meetings.
4. Use MMM “as is” or customize to fit your meeting.

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