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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

321: Making Meetings Meaningful with Mamie Kanfer Stewart (Host of the Modern Manager podcast)

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

Sharpening, Decisions, Interview, Selfhelp, Fun, Speaking, Education, Careers, Skills, Money, Training, Meaning, Career, Thinking, Mental Health, Business, Health & Fitness, Success, Collaboration, Winning, Self-improvement, Mockaitis, Writing, Development, Wins

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Mamie Stewart shares her expertise in planning (and declining!) meetings, substitutes to the traditional meetings, and making meetings more beneficial and productive for everyone.   You'll Learn: How to decline a meeting so well, that they may just thank you for doing so Ideal alternatives to meetings Best practices for achieving your expected outcome in meetings   About Mamie: Mamie Kanfer Stewart is the author of Momentum: Creating Effective, Engaging, and Enjoyable Meetings. Her company, Meeteor, helps teams and organizations build healthy meeting culture. As a coach, speaker, writer, and trainer, Mamie has helped thousands of people improve their meetings and how they collaborate. Mamie has been featured in Forbes, Inc, and Fast Company. She is a regular contributor on The Price of Business and is the host of The Modern Manager podcast.   View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep321 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant

0:05.4

professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to

0:08.8

flourish at work. Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete McKitis.

0:20.0

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 321 with Mamie Kan for Stewart.

0:24.0

Do you find that you spend much of your workday in meetings?

0:28.0

Yes, both of us do.

0:30.0

Well, Mamie is going deep into what makes meetings effective versus ineffective, how to decline

0:34.9

the masterfully so useful could save you many, many hours over the course of your work life.

0:40.1

So you'll learn one, how to decline a meeting so well, they may just thank you for doing so.

0:45.0

Two, ideal alternatives to meetings, and three, best practices for achieving your expected outcome in meetings.

0:52.0

So if you'd like to take a look at the show notes of the

0:53.4

transcript or the links to items we've referenced you'll find that over at

0:56.2

awesome at your job.com slash epp 321. Now here's maiming story.

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Maimi can for Stewart is the author of Momentum, creating effective, engaging, and enjoyable meetings.

1:06.0

Her company Meteor helps teams to organizations build a healthy meeting culture.

1:10.6

As its coach, speaker, writer, and trainer, Mamie has helped thousands of people improve their meetings and how they collaborate.

1:16.2

Mamie has been featured in Forbes, Inc. and Fast Company.

1:18.8

She's a regular contributor on the price of business and is the host of the Modern Manager podcast.

1:25.0

So thanks to Mamie for sharing some time with us and thanks to our sponsors.

1:28.0

Check them out.

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Here is Mamie.

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