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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

492: Making Meetings Work with J. Elise Keith

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

J. Elise Keith shares what makes meetings succeed vs. fail.   You'll Learn: Signs of an ineffective meeting How the best organizations approach meetings When and how to opt out of a meeting   About J. Elise: Elise Keith is the co-founder of online meeting management platform Lucid Meetings. Known as the ‘Meeting Maven,’ Elise offers unprecedented expertise that inspires audiences, proving that meetings shouldn’t be fewer or shorter—but better and more effective. She is the author of Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization, which contains eye-opening strategies companies can use to structure beneficial meetings, create a healthy workplace culture, and propel overall team momentum. Book: “Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization” Company: Lucid Meetings Website: JEliseKeith.com   Resources mentioned in the show: Poem: “The Summer Day” by Mary Oliver Term: Chatham House Rule Term: Vegas Rules Study: “Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace” Harvard Business Review Book: “Time and the Art of Living” by Robert Grudin   Thank You, Sponsors! Monday.com. Collaborate more effectively--and beautifully--at monday.com/awesome. Eyeconic. Get name-brand eyewear easily and affordably from eyeconic.com/awesome. Babbel. Learn a new language anywhere, anytime with babbel.com   View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep492    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 professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete McKitis.

0:16.0

Hello, and thanks for joining us here for episode 492 with Elise Keith.

0:23.3

Elise is talking about meetings and how to make them better, more efficient, more

0:27.7

outstanding.

0:28.7

So you'll learn one, science of an ineffective meeting.

0:31.1

Two, how the best organizations approach meetings, and three,

0:34.8

when and how to opt out of a meeting.

0:37.3

So if you want to take a look at the show notes or the transcript or the links to items we've

0:40.4

referenced, it's at awesome at your job. dot com slash F 492.

0:44.6

Now here's Elise's story.

0:46.0

Elise Keith is a co-founder of an online media

0:48.0

management platform called Lucid Meetings.

0:50.2

She's known as the Meeting Mabin,

0:51.6

and she offers unprecedented expertise that inspires audiences

0:55.0

proving that meetings shouldn't be fewer or shorter,

0:57.6

but better and more effective.

0:59.6

She's the author of where the action is,

1:01.4

the meetings that make or break your organization, which

1:04.0

contains eye-opening strategies companies can use to structure beneficial meetings, create a

1:08.6

healthy workplace culture, and propel overall team momentum.

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