Tired of too many woeful, directionless meetings?
Learn the step-by-step Meeting Maestro success recipe to save time and improve business results.
"One of the biggest challenges we have in business is time. Finding time savings, getting more stuff done in less time, and not wasting time. Hoogwout’s breakthrough book can help you gain back time and enable you to be more effective in an area that costs businesses dearly - meetings. The Meetings Maestro book gave me actionable, practical strategies to help slash time-wasting in meetings and convert exhausting meetings into engaging ones. You will win back time by investing in reading this book."
Nils Vesk, Author of The Reinvention Sprint and Founder of the innovation agency Ideas with Legs
A blueprint for designing and delivering exceptional meetings — consistently.
In business world, a huge and growing amount of time is invested in meetings.
Despite the immense possibilities that timely rendezvous with staff, partners or clients can open up, however, work meetings regularly fail to deliver on their full potential.
So what can be done to prevent time-pressed executives from wasting precious hours on mediocre results from ineffectual gatherings?
Meet ST Hoogwout. He’s spent years teaching businesspeople worldwide how to conduct spectacularly effective meetings.
In this book, he shares his reliable blueprint for designing and hosting successful ones every time—using simple but proven strategies that will transform administrators, managers and directors in your company into Meetings Maestros.
Inside these pages you will find all the tools you need to conduct engaging, purposeful and effective meetings of any type, empowering your business not only to save time, but also to lift morale and grow productivity.
“If you are in business, you attend meetings. This book provides a first class look at how to design your meetings to have a clear, defined purpose, to ensure participant engagement and deliver outcomes quickly. Great strategies, simple to incorporate.”
Julie Bowden, Director at True Colours People Solutions
What’s inside the book?
Learn why most meetings are inadequate and find out where you are on the ‘Rookie to Meetings Maestro’ ladder.
What is the best method to scheduling meetings smarter? You need to send out a meeting invite and everything will be taken care off, right? Wrong! Exceptional meetings start with diligent preparation. ST’s groundbreaking process reveals how.
Set yourself up for success. Use tried-and-tested templates to hit the ground running from the get-go.
How to lead meetings that achieve outcomes. Learn the 6 core facilitation skills to conduct engaging, purposeful, and effective meetings from start to finish.
Tactics for elevating the energy in the room at any given moment in your meeting.
End on a high. Learn how to define and clear agreed action steps and ownership to ensure everyone is on the same page and real progress can be made.
The absolute FASTEST way to accelerate your journey to becoming a Meetings Maestro... Even if you are starting from square one.
Meetings Maestro is packed with templates, exercises and practices you can apply from today for greater meeting success.
"I wish I'd had this book earlier in my career. If the thousands of meetings I'd attended and often led across the world had followed the Meeting Maestro way, we could have achieved more with less time. This is even more important with virtual meetings popping up everywhere. Meeting Maestro is now my reference for organising future meetings."
Mike Harley, Managing Director at XPonential Australia New Zealand
Who is Meetings Maestro for?
Executives
For leaders who’s results have dropped and/or are under pressure to create a rapid turnaround or face losing their job.
INTRAPRENEURS & project managers
Employees within an organisation who are charged with a special project that will improve the organisation.
AMBITIOUS ASSOCIATES
Junior team members or individual contributors who want to climb the corporate ladder as fast as possible but lack a roadmap of the right skills to develop.
What will the Meetings Maestro book do for me?
Save time by eliminating ill-defined meetings from the calendar.
Improve the quality of communication, problem-solving and decision-making in meetings.
Bolster critical thinking skills across employees.
Ensure everyone is on the same page about next steps, timing and ownership for every meeting held.
Improve productivity and business results.
Boost team spirit and connection.
Repay the investment in this book thousands of times over.
"Regardless of your level of experience and proficiency, Meetings Maestro is the quintessential guide to get even more out of your meetings."
Jeffery Wang, Founder of Professional Development Forum
Meet the Author:
Siebe-Thijs (ST) Hoogwout provides consulting and personal effectiveness training to a wide variety of clients, from private sector organisations to government agencies and non-for-profits. A large focus of his work is helping executives boost team productivity and cohesion.
His unique way of approaching team development comes from ST’s diverse path as a husband, management consultant, martial arts instructor, youth camp volunteer, orchestra musician, and even DJ over the last two decades.
ST has a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering & Management from Twente University in the Netherlands and a master’s degree in International Business from Sydney University in Australia. He has fifteen years of management consulting experience and ten years of experience in training and development. The last five years have been devoted to designing and leading programs that enhance individual and group performance within large organisations with a focus on conversational team-building exercises that bring people closer together and help them live a fulfilled life.
In his spare time, ST loves hiking, practising Wing Chun Kung Fu, enjoying a variety of (live) music, and reading memoirs. He lives with his wife, Mariam, in Sydney.
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