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Live Webinar July 21, 2011, 11:00 – 12:30 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

• Have you ever felt powerless to implement an important new idea?
• Have you ever been “blindsided” at a meeting?
• Have you ever lost two good team members because you could find no way to keep them from attacking each other?

These are some of the issues of organizational politics. Many of us have become enmeshed in politics, but we’ve also known some people who seem to be able to engage and prosper.

How is that done?

Leading meetings effectively, and participating in meetings effectively, requires much more than agendas, conference rooms, flip charts, markers, speakerphones or projectors. You also have to know how to use them, and that’s where politics enters.

People need to feel heard, they hate to waste time, and the chair needs to know how to handle sticky situations.

This insight-filled program deals with political dimensions of issues such as:

• What to do when powerful people “sit in”
• Where to sit in the room
• How to craft an agenda that drives the meeting
• How to prevent duels and how to intervene when necessary
• How to prepare and run tele-meetings
• How to handle handouts
• How to plan and run an “issues-only” meeting
• How to avoid playing “Serial Status Report”
• How to get the right volunteers
• How to ask for (and receive) the right kind of help from the meeting attendees
• How to establish a sound political foundation for the meeting before it even starts
• How room geometry and seating position affect human behavior
• How and when to intervene in toxic conflict
• The seven most deadly logical fallacies and how to prevent their use
• How to manage the effects of hardware: projectors, laptops, smart-phones, etc.
• How to use a “parking lot”

In this webinar workshop with Rick Brenner (LinkedIn profile), Principal at Chaco Canyon Consulting, we will provide a general framework that helps meeting leaders focus on leading the people in the meeting rather than getting enmeshed in their politics.

Click to register for The Politics of Meetings (for People Who Hate Politics)