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Running Virtual Meetings (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)
Test Your Technology, Keep Their Attention, Connect Across Time Zones
Series: 20-Minute Manager
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The book offers strategies for managing common challenges like poor connectivity, background noise, and ensuring everyone participates, even across global teams. Ideal for those seeking clear, actionable advice to enhance remote collaboration.
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Perfect for professionals and managers who conduct or participate in virtual meetings and want to improve their efficiency and impact. Suitable for anyone looking for quick, essential business skills to better manage remote teams and communications.
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Whether you're hosting a conference call or running a WebEx meeting, virtual meetings are ripe for problems. Poor call quality, people forgetting to mute, people staying muted rather than participating—the list of things that can and do go wrong is endless. But you can prepare and lead an effective meeting from afar. This book will quickly bring you up to speed. With guiding principles and tips for making your virtual meeting run smoothly, you'll tick through every item on your agenda.
Running Virtual Meetings guides you through the basics of:
- Conducting efficient and productive virtual meetings
- Preparing for a successful meeting—from crafting a realistic agenda to performing a technological test-drive
- Managing common problems, such as connectivity issues, low talkers, blowhards, and background noise
- Following up and holding people accountable when your attendees are spread all over the globe
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Book Details
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ISBN: 9781633691490
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 August 2016
Country: United States
Imprint: Harvard Business Review Press
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 127.0mm
Height: 177.0mm
Weight: 99g
Pages: 144
About the Author
Harvard Business Review is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, 13 international licensed editions, books from Harvard Business Review Press, and digital content and tools published on HBR.org, Harvard Business Review provides professionals around the world with rigorous insights and best practices to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact.
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