Meetings
That Get
Results
Lead meetings that…
Produce clear and actionable results—every time.
Avoid the worst possible outcome from any meeting—another meeting!
Ensure deliverables that participants both understand and own.
Stop wasting time and money!
With Meetings That Get Results, you’ll learn how to lead meetings that produce clear and actionable results every time. More important, how to avoid the worst possible outcome from any meeting—another meeting!
Developed from over 17+ years of research, delivery, and practice, including 15,000+ hours providing live instruction using Certified curriculum, Meetings That Get Results provides you with the tools and methods necessary to lead meetings that generate clear and actionable results, with deliverables that participants both understand and own.
Who Needs This Book?
This practical, comprehensive guide is for any leader searching for the perfect tools to design meetings that result in less wasted time, more collaborative decision-making, and measurably improved business outcomes, including directors, project managers, scrum masters, product owners, and analysts of all types.
This valuable resource lays out a structured method for designing and leading better meetings. Its facilitative approach marks a transition from the leader as “the expert with the answers” to a new world where the leader’s job is to ask the right questions and manage context. To ask the right questions, facilitators need access to a wide range of tools, and the expertise to match the tool with the situation. With facilitative tools properly applied, leaders can build consensus around important questions, creating buy-in among team members and stakeholders which will make their work so much more effective. At the end of every meeting, the participants, not the presenter, will own the content, which is key. Used correctly, these tools can help build a culture of engagement and motivation. This book is an easy-to-navigate catalog of tools collected and tested by the MG Rush Facilitation consultancy to provide evidence-based results.
Our 43 page Participant’s Guide is now available. Intended to be used alongside the book “Meetings That Get Results”, both the book and this workbook support our curriculum and training programs designed to improve leadership, facilitation, and meeting design skills. The curriculum focuses on the skills required when leading groups to consensus. It includes a strong emphasis on servant leadership, planning sessions of all types, decision-making and prioritization, and creative problem-solving.
About the Author
Terrence Metz is passionate about training students to lead meetings that produce clear and actionable results every time!
In addition to being a Certified Structured Professional Facilitator (CSPF), lead instructor, and managing director of MG RUSH Facilitation Training and Coaching, Terrence earned his MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. His professional certifications include a Six Sigma Green Belt from Motorola University, Certified Scrum Master (CSM) from the Scrum Alliance, Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), and How To Teach Online (HTTO) Certification from the Open Leadership Network, among other certifications.
He has taught classes on facilitation and leadership with the Broad Institute (a research venture of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University), Purdue University, the University of Arkansas (Sam Walton School of Business), and instructors from the Stanford University Advanced Project Management Program (who wedged in his five-day professional class between Christmas and New Year’s), along with numerous private organizations and departments of local and federal governments.