Manage Meetings in Half the Time!

What if you Excelled at running meetings?

What if your meetings were CRISP, not slow, over-extended discussions?

What if your meetings made people THINK, not drift off into updating their email and text messages?

What if your meetings kept people on the EDGE OF THEIR SEAT…

There’s a very simple process to making this all happen.  We’ve actually completed two research studies on this, and in each study using our technology and technique, meetings leaders
completed meetings in 50% of the usual time.

Picture this.  You’re going to use both components (which I’m going to tell you about below) to start excelling at your very next meeting.  To transform them from reviews, easily dominated by people who like to talk… to encounters, where everyone attending is accountable for results, follow-through and preparation.  Now wouldn’t that be different?  Can you picture that for yourself?

Ok, so here’s the two things you need to know:

1. Use the right technology for managing your meetings and that means ManagePro
Use the ManagePro technology to keep a review of participants results and accountability, as well as a summary of the discussion visual, and in front of everyone.   Include an onscreen timer (see link below) if that helps. Capture the information visually, but not to a piece of paper or white board.  Capture the information to ManagePro. 

Here's a link to schedule a demo  - Click to Test Drive a free demo copy of the software for 30 days

Why use ManagePro?  Well, because…

·     To get great follow-through, and that necessary “time is valuable” edge to the meeting, information has to be easily retrievable, as if it lives at your finger tips… now and in that next meeting as well.

·      To raise the effectiveness bar, discussions need to convert directly into trackable action steps. Action steps which will be visually displayed in the next meeting to help motivate follow-through.  You get the picture, right?  See I said picture, because along with stories, most of us find pictures an easy way to remember and consolidate information.

·      To keep people involved and thinking, you need to pull the focus to a single spot and include in that display a review of their follow-through for everyone to see.   That’s focus.

 

2. You need to use best practices, there’s no substitution for that.  There are lots of resources for this available, ranging from the PAT model (have a Purpose, Agenda and Timeframe), to more extensive coverage of meeting management skills to maintain focus, momentum and deal with the challenge your meeting participants can present as obstacles to accomplishing fantastic meetings.  Here’s a couple of links, for your review.

- Find our step by step approach laid out in a series of ebooks and videos at the following site:
http://rodneybrim.com/info/ebooks

- Top 10 tips approach
http://www.coaching-businesses-to-success.com/managing_meetings.html

- A more complete Review
http://ssw.unc.edu/CARES/planningbasics/meetings-rev2.pdf

Bottom Line:
1.  Start using ManagePro and our methodology to create meetings that are twice as effective in half the time today.  Remember Click to Test Drive a free demo copy of the software for 30 days

2. Here’s where you can get a free timer that works fantastic in meetings - http://www.online-stopwatch.com/

3. Finally, and this is a big one, by all means take a look at using our meeting management service, you'll find all the basic information you need to know just below.

Meeting Management Service

The Challenge: Meetings are central to getting business done for most organizations. Ranging from slow paced report reviews to fast paced collaborative discussions, they present a challenge to store the information in a readily retrievable format, and create action items that are easy to follow-up.  

The Solution: ManagePro represents a powerful tool to help manage the information presented in meetings with efficiency and time savings unlike any other tool. As part of our meeting management service we provide a ManagePro business expert to assist you in creating the meeting agenda, who then joins you in the meeting via web meeting software. Working the keyboard with an onscreen display, we capture information and action items for you, while you're conducting the meeting. We send out the actions created in the meeting via email, plus provide reports to track follow-through. Nothing slips through the cracks.

Click here for a PDF describing our Meeting Management Scribe/Update service or

Click here for a PowerPoint deck describing our Meeting Management Scribe/Update service

Click to Test Drive a free demo copy of the software for 30 days

 

TRADE-IN Guarantee  As an addition benefit, we allow purchasers of new licenses, who find out one or more licenses will not be used, to trade those back in against our Meeting Management Service. As we find that whether direct reports use ManagePro or MProLite, or not, executives and managers find tremendous value by managing their meetings using ManagePro. Licenses traded back within 30 days of purchase are traded at 100% the price of the license. Licenses traded back within 31 - 90 days receive a 50% cost of license trade in value. No trade in value is offered for licenses purchase more than 90 days in the past. Contact PST to (707) 487-3000 for more information and to discuss your meeting management needs.