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It is easy to call a meeting but holding effective meetings generally requires employing meeting facilitation skills that can take years of training and experience to acquire. Since everyone who conducts meetings can not be a trained meeting facilitator, MMM will empower any meeting leader with the facilitation skills needed to achieve great meeting results – Every Time. Here is what MMM includes:

MindSights Meeting Facilitator: Guides the meeting leader to use professional facilitation skills ranging from deciding if a meeting is necessary, to planning the meeting, to running an effective meeting, to post-meeting action item follow-up.

Consultants On-demand (Meeting Mentors): As skilled meeting facilitators know, meetings are a process that requires planning on “How” meetings are delivered. These pre-developed best practice smartbook applications are like having a skilled consultant helping you run the meeting. Use these applications “as is”, as a ready reference guide, or customize them to help jump start your meeting needs.

Thinklets Toolkit: A key objective for any meeting leader is to elevate participants thinking effectiveness to yield the best meeting outcomes. Professional meeting facilitators spend a great deal of time finding the right questions to ask and the right tools to use. This smartbook provides over 200 cognition tools and 1700+ mentoring questions to help improve meeting participants thinking abilities.

The growing imperative for better meetings – click here

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1. Introduction & Navigation

2. Quick Start Meeting Planner

3. Professional Meeting Facilitator

Plan, develop and run great meetings – every time.

4. Consultants On-demand (Meeting Mentors)

Jump-start meeting planning with these pre-developed meeting applications.

5. Thinklets Toolkit

Empower meeting participants thinking by asking the right questions and

using the right tools.

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The Imperative for Better Meetings mtg

As more of what people do takes place in teams, meetings become the setting in which most of the really important work gets done. More than ever, team and organizational success becomes reliant on the quality and success of its meetings." says Patrick Lencioni, Death by Meeting.

A New Way to Improve Meeting Productivity

Collaboration and conferencing technologies, like WebX , Live Meeting, make anytime/anywhere meetings possible. They do a great job of getting people TO meetings ... but only people can make them productive.

MindSights ^Meeting Mentor uses a new facilitated thinking technology that focuses on getting people productively THROUGH meetings by improving the effectiveness of both meeting leaders and participants.

The Meeting Productivity Crisis · Many believe “Bad meetings” are the #1 waste of human capital – costing businesses billions each year! · Unproductive meetings leave participants frustrated, unmotivated and without clear directions. · Running good meetings is a difficult skill to master and hiring Professional Meeting Facilitators can be costly.

Better Meetings with Meeting Mentor

“Eliminating bad meetings means empowering meeting leaders with the skills of a professionally trained Meeting Facilitator, either through extensive training … or from tools like MindSights Meeting Mentor, says Robert Beard, Director of Strategic Solutions Center at SAIC.

The Solution – MindSights Meeting Mentor (MMM) MMM empowers the meeting leader with the meeting facilitation tools needed to achieve successful meetings – Every Time! MMM is built on a simple premise “choose the tool appropriate for the task at hand” MMM works by encapsulating the processes and knowledge of skilled Meeting Facilitators into cognitive tools called “thinklets”. MMM is comprehensive including over 1100 pages of customizable content, over 150 thinking tools and templates, plus more than 1,800 question thinklets.

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How can I use and benefit from MMM

Good meetings generally require employing meeting facilitation skills that can take years of

training and experience to acquire. Since everyone who conducts meetings can not be a trained

meeting facilitator, MMM can empower you or any meeting leader in the following ways

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Basic Planning	Use MMM as an on-demand ready reference resource guide at every step to help plan your meeting.
Planning with Meeting Modules	Use MMM’s pre-developed meeting modules “as is” or as a guide to quickly arrange your planning.
Pre-meeting Preparation	Expedite your meeting start by emailing MMM tools/questions to participants in advance to enter pre-meeting inputs.
Printed Workbook Meeting Delivery	Print and distribute MMM tools as a hardcopy to participants as an aid during the meeting.
Electronic Meeting Delivery	With a projector or smart whiteboard, electronically display your agenda, templates and facilitator questions to help guide the meeting. Have a recorder directly enter data and print or email minutes immediately upon conclusion.
Networked (anytime/anyplace) Meeting Delivery	If it is difficult to get people together, put MMM agenda, templates and facilitator questions on a network. Have meeting members participate via their networked inputs. Minimize travel and have face-to-face meetings only when it is essential.
Virtual Meeting Facilitator	Run your meeting like normal, but have MMM available on a laptop. As needed, use it like a virtual meeting facilitator to access questions, templates and tools during the meeting.
Post Meeting	Email or put meeting templates on a network. Have participant use them as a post meeting management tool to collect feedback and follow-up on meeting action items.
Customize MMM to Fit your Meeting	MMM’s smart-book architecture allows for full customization making it truly under your cause and control.
Create Your Own Meeting Modules	If you have an annual or routine meeting, consider developing your own meeting module. Continue to build upon them to create a very powerful meeting tool.
Enhance Web Conferencing Meetings	Integrate MMM into collaboration and web conferencing tools like Net-Meeting, Web X, Group Systems, etc.
Training	Use MMM as a self-development training course or integrate it into your existing training courses.
Application Development	Use MMM to automate internal thought processes and create your own smart-books

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