Become your company's next meeting hero!

Christian Güdemann

@guedeWebGate

Roman Weber

@RomanWebGate

Become your Company‘s

next Meeting Hero!

What do you

feel when you

hear the word

„Meeting“?

Some figures!

Some figures!

Meetings are Collaboration at

it‘s best!

Meetings, show you understand

Listen actively

Show empathy

Rule 1:

Consider meeting alternatives

Rule 2:

Think hard..

Is a meeting

necessary?

Rule 3:

A meeting NEEDS

a purpose!

Examples of

Purposes

1. Solve a problem

2. Need a decision

3. Need a plan

4. Important news

5. Launching something new

Minimal Structure is needed!

The Beginning

The Middle

The End

The Beginning

• Set the stage

• Make sure everyboy knows about

the purpose

• Mentally prepare the audience for

action

The Middle (Stay in Control)

• Doing what you came to do

• Consumes easily 80% of the time

• Make decisions

• Solve problems

• Generate ideas

• Provide information

• Gather data

• Act heroically!!!

The End

• 5 min cool down & summerize

• Everyone‘s clear what has

happend

• Everyone‘s clear about the actions

• Leave a positive feeling

For yourself

=> evaluate what worked and what did not work!

Other keys to success

• Be assertive, not aggressive

• Ask for other people’s ideas

• Build on them

• Offer your ideas

• Construct the solution for everyone’s

needs.

• Encourage further dialogue

I, (Your Name), do solemnly

swear that I will only call a

meeting if I have a clear and

meaningful reason for doing so,

and other equally effective and

less expensive methods of

reaching any goals are not

available to me.

Take the Pledge!!

We‘ve designed a

#NewWayToMeet

Use the goodmeeting.biz on Greenhouse!

Some Features……

Run or

Replay a

Meeting

Open a

Meeting Open the

Meeting

Minutes

Some Features……

You can invite anybody who has

a greenhouse account

Connect meetings into a

MeetingChain

Some Features……

Meeting ToDo‘s become

Activities in IBM Connection

Time Progress Bar‘s

for the meeting plan

Completed agenda

items

Click on any of those

Blog articles to find

valuable informations

about meetings =>

Act heroically => Meetings need

hero‘s

3 Reasons to accept the challenge

• Altruism

• Your happiness

• Your career