Whether you're the chair or the attendee, the minutes-taker or the CEO working with a governing board, you'll find plenty of useful tools, easy-to-implement ideas, and practical suggestions to make your meetings more effective and productive. Everything you need for healthy meetings and effective decision-making: the 10 key ingredients of a successful meeting; using preventive and visionary planning; becoming a master facilitator; surviving contentious...

The right story told at the right time has the power to persuade, promote empathy, and provoke action. Even more, a story explains who you are, what you want, and why it matters--better than any other communication tool in your arsenal. In Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins, author and vibrant keynote speaker Annette Simmons teaches you how to narrate personal experiences as well as borrowed stories in a way that demonstrates authenticity, builds emotional...

Event Marketing provides the most effective tools for carrying out every phase of a successful, integrated marketing campaign for any event, from conferences and expositions to fairs and festivals that host 20,000 people. It explains the powerful forms of promotion, advertising, and public relations that are needed to attract broad attention, motivate people to attend, and achieve the desired goals of an event.