How to Prewire a Meeting - HOF 2017

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Mike Auzenne

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🗓️ 25 December 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

For the holidays, we're re-releasing one of our Hall of Fame casts ... the Pre-wire. This cast describes a way to prepare for meetings or presentations where you need to persuade.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Manage Tools. This week, in honor of the holidays, a special Hall of Fame cast of one of our most popular cast of all time, how to prewire a meeting.
0:11.0	This is one of the top 10 most used tactics by executives that a lot of managers
0:19.1	don't know. We hope you enjoy it.
0:22.0	Welcome to the Manager Tools Members Only Podcast.
0:25.0	Today's Topic How to Prewire a Meeting. Oh, Hi everyone this is Mike and welcome back to manager tools. Let's imagine you have
0:49.7	a meeting coming up. Not only do you need to make a presentation, you need to make a presentation to your
0:55.3	boss's boss. Maybe you, not only do you need to present to your boss's boss, but also to all
1:00.8	her directs at her next staff meeting.
1:03.0	Well, how do you prepare for that?
1:05.0	How do you ensure that you don't walk across any landmines during the presentation?
1:09.0	What can you do now to make that presentation a slam dunk. Well, listen up folks, and this
1:14.9	member's only cast with obvious links to our weekly podcast discussion on
1:18.8	persuasion that we've been doing, we're going to show you how. Here we go. Yeah, I think this week we were going to talk about prewiring meetings, but before we do,
1:40.3	maybe you could explain what prewire means because I'm always surprised about the number of people who've never even heard that term before.
1:49.0	Yeah, I'm not sure. It may very well be that it's like that somebody actually knows
1:57.8	the answer there's a rationale for it I think I think on a previous cast I told the story of Foyles.
2:04.2	There are people all across the country that don't know that when people used to do
2:09.5	before PowerPoint really came along and even after PowerPoint to some agree that people did slides and now really
2:16.2	wouldn't you agree that people don't even talk about slides and where they talk
2:19.5	about decks?
2:20.5	Yeah decks right at least in the technology world it's not even you don't even talk about your slides. You talk about decks, which is nothing more than a stack of slides. And the bigger deck, the dumber the idea is surely but but people did not know they wondered why
2:37.8	transparencies were called foils because they weren't made out of FOIL. Well of course it's because
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