Quick Meeting Openers for Busy Managers November 14, 2008 More than 50 Icebreakers, Energizers, And Other Creative Activities That Get Results (AMACOM; $12.21)
Quick Meeting Openers for Busy Managers by Brian Cole Miller provides anyone running a meeting, including managers, team leaders and facilitators, with the tools, activities, and advice needed to create the kind of open, energetic, and relaxed atmosphere that lead to effective meetings. The book provides easy-to-run meeting starters to help get things going without taking up too much valuable time reserved for the subject of the meeting itself. The author leaves out the kind of "touchy-feely" icebreakers that force participants to share intimate thoughts and feelings, and often makes managers feel like they're acting like psychologists. Instead he offers readers activities that help to:
•ease introductions for people who don't know each other •warm up the group before moving them into more difficult territory •generate lively dialogue and sharing of ideas •effectively split attendees up into work groups •expedite brainstorming and promote problem-solving
Written to take the anxiety out of meetings and encourage creative and practical discussion, the activities—none of which involve handouts that meeting leaders have to prepare, copy, and distribute—all last less than 15 minutes, with many as short as just a minute or two.
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