“An important guidebook for leaders on what hybrid work is and how to make it a successful reality in their organizations. Suddenly Hybrid is filled with practical advice, research, and strategies that make this an invaluable resource!”
— Jacob Morgan, founder of FutureofWorkUniversity.com and best-selling author of The Future Leader, The Employee Experience Advantage, and The Future of Work
Suddenly Hybrid: Managing the Modern Meeting
As remote work becomes less of an unusual exception and more of an everyday necessity, hybrid meetings—meetings in which some attendees are physically present while others are virtually present—are becoming the norm.
In Suddenly Hybrid: Managing the Modern Meeting, Emmy award-winning communications expert Karin Reed and veteran industrial and organizational psychologist Dr. Joseph A. Allen deliver a practical and actionable framework for attending, hosting, and managing hybrid meetings. The authors draw from their extensive experience in research and business, as well as firsthand stories and up-to-date studies, to offer a guide that’s grounded in science and proven in the real world.
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In This Book, You’ll Find…
New research insights springing from the rapid and exponential adoption of virtual meeting technology
Discussion of the problems, challenges, and pitfalls of meeting in this new modality
Practical, actionable best practices, backed by meeting research that lead to more productive and effective virtual meetings
Early Praise for Suddenly Hybrid:
“Hybrid meetings are here to stay, but your star performers are not if you don’t keep them connected in a post-pandemic workplace. Karin and Joe unlock the secrets — in a deeply researched and immediately actionable new book — to engaging your team across technology and distance so that they can be closer than ever to your organization's goals.”
— Laura Gassner Otting, Washington Post bestselling author of Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life
“Hybrid meetings are at the heart of business where flexible work is the norm. Karin and Joe offer what leaders need to make these meetings work - science-based best practices that can help you navigate them well.”
— Dorie Clark, author of The Long Game and Executive Education Faculty at Duke University Fuqua School of Business
“Your success - regardless of your role - relies on your ability to master hybrid communication. Suddenly Hybrid provides you with data-based, actionable tips and techniques to ensure you can successfully run and participate in hybrid meetings. This is a must have on every business persons' reading list.”
— Matt Abrahams, Lecturer of Strategic Communication at Stanford GSB, co-founder of Bold Echo, LLC and author of Speaking Up without Freaking Out
“The old way of leading teams is now a thing of the past. The future of work is hybrid. ‘Suddenly Hybrid’ is an excellent fact-based playbook with best practices that will inspire more engaged and satisfied employees.”
— Sarah Johnston, award-winning career branding expert and founder of Briefcase Coach
“How can managers balance employee demands for flexibility with organization objectives? Reed and Allen answer that question in spades. Suddenly Hybrid is a critical, evidence-based book that has arrived at the perfect time.”
— Phil Simon, author of Reimagining Collaboration: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and the Post-COVID World of Work
“Who knew a meeting scientist and an on-camera coach would become so essential for leaders and employees in just about every office-based industry? Evidently, Karin and Joe did. This book is chock-full of great guidance and actionable tips for both leaders and employees who want to perform at their best as individuals and teams!”
— Hoby Darling, Human Performance Expert and Executive at Logitech, Liminal Collective, Skullcandy, and Nike
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Running Effective Meetings for Dummies
Turn meetings into the best part of your day with this actionable, step-by-step guide.
Brainstorming meetings. Team meetings. Stakeholder meetings. Zoom meetings. Hybrid meetings. Most of us are part of more meetings than we can even count. And how many of these meetings are actually productive and valuable?
Running Effective Meetings For Dummies shows you how to plan, guide, and run a great meeting, whether you’re doing it face-to-face, fully virtual, or a combination of both. Authors Dr. Joseph Allen, industrial and organizational psychologist, and Emmy-award winning communications expert Karin Reed team up to walk you through the steps you need to take to make your next meeting your best one yet.
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Suddenly Virtual: Making Remote Meetings Work
The shift to virtual meetings was sudden and often traumatic for businesses across all industries as they responded to the global pandemic. Rather than focusing on what worked best, they focused on what worked now…which meant closing up the office and being suddenly virtual in nearly every meeting, often without the tools, the training, or the expertise to optimize the new “kitchen table” office. Thankfully, businesses are beginning to be more purposeful in both the tools they use and the approach they take. This book seeks to be a definitive guide for businesses looking to make their meetings as effective as possible in the ever-evolving “new normal”—leveraging insights from some of the foremost thought leaders in meeting science and on-camera communication.
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Managing Meetings in Organizations
Groups and teams are the backbone of modern organizations and the driving force behind innovation. Employees come together to pool their efforts, join forces, develop creative ideas, and make decisions in one key social context: the workplace meeting. This volume presents novel perspectives and state-of-the art research insights into the management of meetings in the workplace. The book sheds light on key trends with regards to the changing nature of work and highlights how these trends map on to new challenges for managing effective meetings. The twelve chapters that compose this volume cover four overarching topics: conceptual foundations, the intersection of individual and team processes, diversity and gender, and leadership and strategy in and through meetings. The international team of contributors includes authors from industrial and organizational psychology, management, organizational behavior, and evolutionary psychology. By establishing that meetings form a core interactional context for groups and teams in organizations, this book shows that finding ways to run effective meetings is more important than ever. Managing Meetings in Organizations appeals to researchers and academic scholars in industrial and organizational psychology, management, and organizational behavior, as well as practitioners looking for evidence-based recommendations for managing workplace meetings.