How to Prewire a Meeting - HOF 2022

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Mike Auzenne

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🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Our Hall of Fame guidance on preparing for meetings or presentations where you need to persuade.

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0:00.0	Hey folks, this is Mark. I get the great pleasure of introducing a Hall of Fame cast this week.
0:07.2	The cast is how to pre-wire a meeting. If you've never heard it before, it's one of our very
0:14.0	best. That's why it's Hall of Fame. If you have heard it before, I encourage you to listen again.
0:18.5	Pre-wiring is one of those things that if you're a young professional, you've probably never
0:23.4	heard of it before. If you've ever seen a presentation where somebody gets up and gives a presentation
0:29.5	internally and every single person supports the recommendation or their idea or the request for
0:36.1	budget or whatever, that's because those decisions were already made before that meeting happened.
0:43.0	And it's not politics. It's a professional manager or executive or even an individual contributor
0:48.6	taking the time to talk to people in advance so that when they go into the meeting, they've already
0:54.9	incorporated their input into the recommendation or the suggestion or the new budget or whatever it
1:01.2	might be. Pre-wiring is a totally professional move. This is one of my top 20 favorite cast. Please
1:09.2	enjoy how to pre-wire a meeting. Welcome to the manager tools members only podcast. Today's topic
1:16.9	how to pre-wire a meeting.
1:28.3	Hi everyone, this is Mike and welcome back to manager tools. Let's imagine you have a meeting
1:41.1	coming up. Not only do you need to make a presentation, you need to make a presentation to your boss
1:46.7	is boss. Maybe not only do you need to present to your boss's boss, but also to all her directs
1:52.4	at her next staff meeting. Well how do you prepare for that? How do you ensure that you don't walk
1:57.3	across the landmines during the presentation? What can you do now to make that presentation a slam
2:03.2	dunk? Well listen up folks and this members only cast with obvious links to our weekly podcast
2:09.2	discussion on persuasion that we've been doing. We're going to show you how. Here we go.
2:22.8	Yeah, I think this week we were going to talk about pre-wiring meetings, but before we do,
2:31.1	maybe you could explain what pre-wiring means because I'm always surprised about the number of
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