“Looking for ways to make your virtual meetings better? This book delivers, with practical advice - backed by solid science - to help you inspire your team, engage better with your customers, and achieve your most important business goals.”
— Dorie Clark, Executive Education Faculty at Duke University Fuqua School of Business
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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In This Book, You’ll Find…
Best practices based on research from the height of the pandemic and the unexpected paradigm shifts that resulted
The challenges and opportunities presented by the trend towards hybrid meetings
New research insights gathered from those early in the transition to hybrid meetings, as well as those implementing a complete framework
Praise for Suddenly Virtual:
“Meetings matter and virtual meetings matter more than ever. Karin and Joe do a fantastic job of providing evidence-based best practices for making your virtual meetings more effective, engaging and even enjoyable.”
— Matt Abrahams, Lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business & Co-founder of Bold Echo LLC
“This book is a gift to meeting leaders, chock full of thoughtful and critical insights. I strongly recommend it to all those looking to flourish in the virtual meeting world.”
— Dr. Steven Rogelberg, Chancellor's Professor at UNC Charlotte & Author of “The Surprising Science of Meetings””
“Karin and Joe strike the right balance of science and practice. Suddenly Virtual is a must-read for anyone doing remote work.”
— Matthew Pollard, bestselling author of The Introvert's Edge Series
“Virtual meetings are here to stay. Not only does this book offer practical evidenced-based ways to make your virtual meetings more effective, its human-centric approach puts the heart and purpose back into why we convene.”
— Sanyin Siang, CEO Coach and Advisor
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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 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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The Cambridge Handbook of Meeting Science
This first volume to analyze the science of meetings offers a unique perspective on an integral part of contemporary work life. More than just a tool for improving individual and organizational effectiveness and well-being, meetings provide a window into the very essence of organizations and employees' experiences with the organization. The average employee attends at least three meetings per week and managers spend the majority of their time in meetings. Meetings can raise individuals, teams, and organizations to tremendous levels of achievement. However, they can also undermine effectiveness and well-being. The Cambridge Handbook of Meeting Science assembles leading authors in industrial and organizational psychology, management, marketing, organizational behavior, anthropology, sociology, and communication to explore the meeting itself, including pre-meeting activities and post-meeting activities. It provides a comprehensive overview of research in the field and will serve as an invaluable starting point for scholars who seek to understand and improve meetings.