50 Ways to Liven up Your Meetings Book

"50 Ways to Liven Up Your Meetings is a proven collection of techniques, activities and games that you can use in any meeting to help: raise the energy levels of everyone involved and bring the meeting alive - from the start or when people start to flag; enable the different people in the group a communicate and work with each other more effectively; tackle problems in the group methodically but creatively; and focus on the outcomes of the meeting that you want to achieve and make them happen." Each of the 50 Ways is clearly signposted and simply described, which means that you can prepare yourself in advance of a meeting and introduce an exercise or a technique, if and when you need it, with a minimum of fuss.

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Trainer, consultant, and author Roberts-Phelps draws on his years of professional experience to present activities and exercises for use in both formal and informal meetings. After discussing some basics on how to improve the management of meetings, he explains how to incorporate his "50 ways" into meetings to increase participation and rapport, generate ideas and discussion, and reduce boredom. Novices might find the effective use of these ideas to be harder than the author makes it seem. The book lacks a bibliography and a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)