Gourmet Meetings on a Microwave Schedule

If you dislike attending meetings, you’ve got a lot of company. More than 25 million meetings are held daily in the United States according to the Wharton Center for Applied Research. Participants consider 42% of their meetings (more than 10.5 million each day!) to be a waste of time.

However the total loss goes far beyond a waste of time. There is the additional drain on energy, dollars, productivity, and morale.

Consider this. If you are in a meeting of ten people whose salaries range between $50,000 and $150,000, the average expense of a one hour and eighteen minute meeting (after all, how many meetings actually stay within their one hour scheduled time frame?) is about $691.00. A little quick math tells you that $691.00 times the more than 10 million “waste-of-time” meetings held in the US each day, adds up to employers paying more than $7 billion dollars daily in salaries alone for their employees to waste time!  It's enough to make a worker choke.

Ouch!

Thankfully there is a real solution with fast results!

 Gourmet Meetings on a Microwave Schedule is a workshop that emerged from our book by the same name (click here for more information on how to order your copies!).

After completing a study with several client companies, five key reasons for lousy meetings emerged. Susan took those five key problems and identified 8- 22 solutions for each one. When you hire her to provide this workshop, you receive these solutions. Participants then make reasoned decisions about the most valuable solutions for their meetings. Participants walk away with tested strategies for improving the productivity and value of their meetings, whether as a meeting leader or participant.

"Susan’s style of facilitation draws the participants into the core of the training modules. She gets the participants engaged early on and keeps them there throughout the seminar." --Claudia Foutz, Executive Vice President, California Society of Health-System Pharmacists

Call (269) 408-1525 to learn more!
 

Highlights/What You Learn/Major Points

Unique Solutions for:

• Unprepared participants

• Meetings that drag on and/or are boring

• People who monopolize meetings

• Meetings that meet over and over again on the same topic

• People who don't participate

Guaranteed Solutions for dealing with:

• Rambling conversations

• Unfocused effort

• Meetings that don't start or end on time

• People who try to pass you the problem

• Who does what by when

• Meeting problems when you are not the leader

• Conflict in meetings

Format

Meeting workshop 3-4 hours

With the client, we identify the big problems to resolve and solve!

"Gourmet Meetings on a Microwave Schedule is a great program that went far beyond standard common sense meeting management.  This training got into methods for handling disruptive behavior in meetings; what to do if you are in a poorly run meeting that someone else is running and many other challenging situations.  I was skeptical when I went.  It turned out to be time very well spent!"

-- Vice President for College Services

"It is very easy to be cynical about this topic and many of us are jaded.  However, the ability to lead (or just participate in!) effective meetings is often an assumed competency.  There are indeed teachable and practical aspects to running good meetings.  This seminar also help raise awareness of how we can work together more effectively and efficiently -- and maybe even have some fun doing it!"

--Associate Director of Institutional Research, Grinnell College

Contact us today to immediately improve the effectiveness of your meetings!

Related Resources:

Are you searching for ways to make your team meetings more valuable? You won't want to miss Susan and Deanne's newest release, Gourmet Meetings on a Microwave Schedule! This little book is jam-packed with more than 150 tips that will save you time, energy, and lotsa dough in all of your meetings!

Gourmet Meetings on a Microwave Schedule - Part I by Susan B. Wilson (FREE! on-line article providing practical solutions to 1 of the 5 most common meeting complaints.)

Gourmet Meetings on a Microwave Schedule - Part II by Susan B. Wilson (FREE! on-line article tackling the 2nd (of 5) most common meeting complaints.)

We’ve Got to Start Meeting Like This by Susan B. Wilson (FREE! on-line article)