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Author Danskin, Karl, 1957-

Title Virtuous meetings : technology + design for high engagement in large groups / Karl Danskin, Lenny Lind
Edition First edition
Published San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, [2014]

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Contents Virtuous Meetings: Technology + Design for High Engagement in Large Groups; Contents; Preface: The Evolution of an Idea; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Choosing Virtuous Meetings; 1 Realizing Virtue in Large Group Meetings; THE VIRTUE OF COLLABORATION; THE VIRTUE OF ACTIVE CONTRIBUTION; What It Means to Be an Active Contributor; What Active Contribution Looks Like; THE KEYS TO CREATING A VIRTUOUS MEETING; The Goal: Convergence; The Keys; HOW LARGE MEETINGS HAVEN'T CHANGED; When Convergence Is Unattainable; What Do We Mean by "Large"?; SEEKING ALIGNMENT; Alignment and Communication
THE HABIT OF CREATING PASSIVE AUDIENCESThe Confusion about "Passive-Audience" Style Design; Activities That Create a Passive Experience; Vicious Cycle of Participants as Passive Audience; THE VIRTUOUS MEETING ITSELF IS THE MESSAGE; CHAPTER ONE: QUICK SUMMARY; 2 The First Key: The Participant-Centered Approach; WHERE IT ALL STARTED; PARTICIPANTS GETTING THEIR VOICE BACK; Making Everyone's Ideas Visible; Advantages of the New Connectivity; CHAPTER TWO: QUICK SUMMARY; 3 The Second Key: High-Speed Connectivity; THE SLOOWWW GROWTH OF CONNECTIVITY IN MEETINGS; WHAT THE TECHNOLOGY ALLOWS
FRIENDLY SOFTWARETHE INPUT DEVICES; THE NETWORK: LOCAL OR INTERNET?; NETWORKING IN VENUES; THE VIRTUE OF CONNECTIVITY IN LARGE GROUP MEETINGS; ACTUALLY ... IT'S NOT ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY; POLLING VERSUS DISCUSSION: A Case Study In Why You Can't Have One Key Without the Other; CHAPTER THREE: QUICK SUMMARY; Case Story 1, Listening to the City-Rebuilding Lower Manhattan after 9/11; Case Story 2, A Global Manufacturing Organization; Part Two: Anchoring Virtuous Meetings; 4 The Use of Small Groups within Large Group Meetings; TWO INTEGRATED LEVELS OF PARTICIPANT EXPERIENCE
What Works in Highly Engaged Small TeamsCan Shared Understanding Be Achieved in Large Groups?; How the Two Levels Work; PUTTING A TWO-LEVEL DESIGN INTO PRACTICE; Designing the Room for Two Levels of Experience; Perceived Alternatives to a Two-Level Meeting; Option 1: Let's All Do This as a Group!; Option 2: We Want to Hear from Every Person!; Option 3: Let's Do Breakouts!; HOW IT FEELS IN THE TABLE GROUP; You Become More Engaged When You Become Part of the Conversation; You Learn More When You Can Digest the Content; You Stay Energized When You Are Active; How It Feels in a Two-Level Meeting
CHAPTER FOUR: QUICK SUMMARY5 Virtuous Engagement Cycles: Creating a Meta-Conversation; THE REVOLUTION: KNOWING WHAT THE GROUP IS THINKING; THE VALUE OF META CONVERSATIONS; VIRTUOUS ENGAGEMENT CYCLES: FOUR STAGES; Stage 1: Present; Stage 2: Discuss; Stage 3: Review; Stage 4: Respond; PUTTING ENGAGEMENT CYCLES INTO PRACTICE; COMPLETING ENGAGEMENT CYCLES; Why Cycles Don't Get Completed; Where Engagement Cycles Get Interrupted and the Impact; Ten Potential Missed Opportunities in Virtuous Meetings; CHAPTER FIVE: QUICK SUMMARY; Case Story 3, Leadership Meeting for a Global Procurement Organization
Summary "Technology + Design leads to breakthrough in large meeting productivityVirtuous Meetings: Technology + Design for High Engagement in Large Groups breaks out of the confines of the meeting room to show the reader what is possible when you need to get large groups of people talking and making decisions together. The book shows that it is possible to achieve effective outcomes in large, important meetings - the kind of meetings that most organizations rely upon for aligning their leaders with strategy or managing change, innovation, and crises. When it matters most what the participants are thinking--even thousands of them at once, who may be in the room, at satellite locations or on laptops at home--this book liberates meeting designers from traditional assumptions and business-as-usual Q & A and discussion tactics with an approach for hearing and working with the contributions of all participants, live. From the Introduction, "Virtuous Meetings is a simple notion--give participants back their voice, and enable them to generate ideas, solutions and understandings that move the whole group, no matter how large, forward together."The book shows how meetings can be virtuous in intent as well as design, and how technology can help in this work. The book shows the reader how to use Virtuous Meeting Cycles, in which all participants' voices are heard, and shared understanding is generated, which in turn is used by participants, as a group, to generate plans and solutions, over which all feel a sense of ownership. As participants and leaders see the value of the outcomes of their interactions, their trust in each other, in the process, and intent to do good increases. With an increase in trust, the engagement becomes fuller and more robust. And so each revolution of the cycle continues ... The book shows how to choose, anchor, design, facilitate, and scale virtuous meetings. In each part, the authors speak from the front lines--from experiences with clients and their critically important large meetings. The "View from Inside the Meeting" and Case Story features of the book share important lessons from some of the authors' most memorable engagements. Author Karl Danskin is an authority on psychology and group energetics. Lenny Lind is a pioneer in the field of technology-assisted group process and is a co-author of Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making, by Sam Kaner, et al. Together, they draw on the collected experiences of over two decades of consulting to multinational corporations, having supported thousands of top-level client meetings, to share a methodology proven to engage participants like never before. Topics include: A new model for thinking about large meetings: Two levels of participant experience - table group, and whole group Exploring the "meta-conversations" that virtuous meetings enable Introducing the Virtuous Engagement Cycle The heart of virtuous meeting design: The Design Team The critical roles in a virtuous meeting An expanded view of (and platform for) leadership Participant-centered meetings of the future Virtuous Meetings is a comprehensive guide to getting the best out of large, strategically important meetings"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Business meetings.
Telematics.
Decision making.
Information technology -- Management.
Organizational behavior.
decision making.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management.
Business meetings
Decision making
Information technology -- Management
Organizational behavior
Telematics
Form Electronic book
Author Lind, Lenny.
LC no. 2014009978
ISBN 9781118573457
1118573455
9781118573389
1118573382
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9781322060927
1118538668
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