The Secrets to Masterful Meetings eBook

The Secrets to Masterful Meetings by Michael Wilkinson is a guide for transforming unproductive meetings into productive ones by providing a step-by-step program for leaders and participants, focusing on establishing "meeting rights" to empower employees, and offering practical tools for agenda setting, conflict resolution, and virtual meeting management. The book aims to create a "meetings revolution" by making bad meetings unacceptable through cultural change, offering strategies to eliminate unnecessary meetings and ensure focus and results. 

• Meeting Rights: 

  Empowers every employee with specific rights (e.g., the right to a clear agenda) to challenge and improve meeting quality. 

   
• 10 Steps to Transformation: 

  A comprehensive program for cultural change, equipping leaders and participants with tools for better meetings. 

   
• Practical Tools: 

  Includes sample agendas, ground rules, and meeting minutes, with specific advice for virtual meetings. 

   
• Problem Solving: 

  Addresses common issues like getting started on time, maintaining focus, and resolving disagreements. 

   
• Focus on Results: 

  Moves beyond logistics to create energized, focused exchanges that lead to implementable ideas. 

• A guide to implementing concepts from Death by Meetings.
• Strategies for productive conflict and reaching agreement.
• Techniques for rescuing poorly run meetings.
• A framework for a "grass-roots revolution" to make bad meetings unacceptable.