Clarence Bjorkarmann

Do you hate being invited or forced to attend meetings?

Have you ever been disinterested in on goings in a meeting?

Are you stuck when you are forced to come up with new ideas?

Does clear thinking seem to elude you?

Do you ever sit there and say nothing and feel bad about it afterwards?

Do you need to prioritize your ideas more efficiently?

Do you have a difficult time organizing your thoughts?

Do you want turn on your thinking ability willingly?

Would better analytical abilities be helpful?

Do you need tools, frameworks to guide or structure your thinking?

Would you like to improve your ability to create new ideas, plan and communicate your thoughts, think strategically, and participate effortlessly and effectively in meetings?

If you answered ‘Yes! ‘ to any number of these questions then you will find some help in this ebook.

Let’s face it. You do not generally like meetings but somehow you simply cannot avoid them. There are meetings everywhere - planning meetings, impromptu meetings, Monday meetings, Friday meetings, weekly meetings, monthly meetings, bi-weekly meetings, annual meetings, evaluation meetings, staff meetings etc.  Yes, there are even more meetings including some on cyberspace -workgroups, seminars, Web seminars(webinars), task forces, conferences, teleconferences, study groups, videoconferences,  information sharing, podcast briefings, executive teams, work teams, collaborative wiki Web sites, advisory committees,  boards meetings... you name it. So you might as well be armed with some tools.

This ebook contains some fairly simple strategies and others not-so-obvious that you can quickly employ to improve your contribution during meetings. The tips, and techniques contained in this ebook came from many different and diverse sources. I promise that you will learn more than you will need to improve your participation in meetings immediately.