Cut 50% of your meetings and improve the ones that remain.

Meetings are essential to collaboration and decision making, but they are often irrelevant, time consuming and badly run. People spend an average of 2 days per week in meetings and 50% of it is wasted. This book will help you win back that wasted day a week by cutting out the half of face to face and virtual meetings that do not need to happen and radically improving the ones that remain.

The two authors, one an experienced CEO and consultant to major multinationals, the other a millennial line manager working within one of the world’s largest companies, find common ground, and occasional disagreements on creating new ways of meeting both face to face and through technology that are far more engaging and effective for everyone.

The book focuses on three main areas:

• Dealing with the business and corporate cultural challenges in changing the way we meet
• Cutting out the unnecessary topics and participants that make up 50% of todays meetings
• Designing and running faster and more focused face to face and online meetings with more relevant content; clearer decisions and actions, and much higher levels of participation

Full of examples and practical tools that will improve everything from your regular team meetings to management meetings, online conferences, global meetings and big events. This book will lead you through practical actions and targets to kill the meetings that do not need to happen and radically improve the ones that remain.

Do you ever feel your life and career is out of balance, or that there must be more to it all than this?

If you want to take control, this book will help you systematically design the next stage of your life and career to maximise your own happiness and fulfilment.

FIND YOUR PURPOSE will:

• help you clarify your values, strengths and purpose and understand what brings meaning for you personally
• introduce principles and techniques for actively designing happiness and fulfilment
• show you how to apply these principles in your work, relationships, leisure and learning
• introduce systematic planning tools into all areas of your life - even those areas you might not expect

By the end of the book you will have created a practical action plan for redesigning the next stage of your life and career, whether that be a sidestep, a side hustle or a complete step change.

Based on workshops and research from a highly experienced training team, these proven tools will enable you to identify the unique portfolio of activities that is likely to make you most happy and fulfilled.

The days of a linear career progression are gone. Shape your life and work to suit the true you and enjoy your personal breakthrough.

CUT 50% OF YOUR MEETINGS AND IMPROVE THE ONES THAT REMAIN Meetings are essential to collaboration and decision making, but they are often irrelevant, time consuming and badly run. People spend an average of 2 days per week in meetings and 50% of it is wasted. This book will help you win back that wasted day a week by cutting out the half of face to face and virtual meetings that do not need to happen and radically improving the ones that remain. The two authors, one an experienced CEO and consultant to major multinationals, the other a millennial line manager working within one of the world's largest companies, find common ground, and occasional disagreements on creating new ways of meeting both face to face and through technology that are far more engaging and effective for everyone. The book focuses on three main areas: * Dealing with the business and corporate cultural challenges in changing the way we meet * Cutting out the unnecessary topics and participants that make up 50% of todays meetings * Designing and running faster and more focused face to face and online meetings with more relevant content; clearer decisions and actions, and much higher levels of participation Full of examples and practical tools that will improve everything from your regular team meetings to management meetings, online conferences, global meetings and big events. This book will lead you through practical actions and targets to kill the meetings that do not need to happen and radically improve the ones that remain.

How to work and manage others successfully in matrix organisations operating across regions and functions, with global teams, customers and supply chains. Traditional management training prioritizes clarity, predictability and control. In a matrix we need to be able to balance this with the ability to tolerate ambiguity, manage uncertainty and decentralize control. Managers need an expanded toolkit to help them move from the hard to the soft, from the concrete to the ambiguous and back again depending on the situation. Making the Matrix Work helps you develop your matrix mindset and will show you how to establish and engage networks that do not depend on role, control or authority to get things done. This 10 year anniversary edition has been extensively revised to cover Agile and digital working, for those working and managing in the fast paced new world of work, with autonomous teams, iterative working and non-hierarchical leadership. It will includes new material on alignment and connecting across silos, and on autonomous teams as well as 3 major new chapters on: Change and stability Hierarchy Networks There are updates to terms and techniques throughout the book to reflect hybrid and post pandemic working considerations and the impact of digital transformation.