Weekend Reads: How to Make Meetings Work Better for Any Team 

Meeting preparation and facilitation is an often-overlooked business skill that can make work more enjoyable and showcase your leadership potential. [Coach.me] [View this email in your browser]( --------------------------------------------------------------- How to Make Meetings Work for Any Team Do meetings deplete or energize your team? Too many people accept sub-par meeting habits that lead to a huge waste of time and energy. It doesn’t have to be like that. Furthermore, helping to improve a meeting is a great way to show off your leadership skills and potential. Here are three articles to help you step up and improve meetings through better facilitation methods and better preparation. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Round Robin — A Dead Simple Management Skill That Works]( How to level the field for competence and against hubris. There’s a messy business dynamic where loud voices crowd out more competent quieter voices. You could come at this as a bias that works against your diversity strategy. Or you could come at it as a bias that’s holding back the performance of your team. But what about if you control the system and want to change it? I have a really simple starting point. [Read more.]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [How to save your team from meeting misery]( It’s common to hear people say that meetings are a “waste of time“, but this is an overcorrection. Meetings aren’t inherently bad, but bad meetings are miserable. You can turn the dial down on meeting misery if you give these three things to meeting invitees. [Read more.]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [How to Prepare a Business Meeting like Rafael Nadal]( In the corporate world you can drown in meetings. When we spend up to 50% of our working time in meetings, you would think that we prepare well, are focused and run them efficiently and effectively. We would prepare and run meetings like an elite athlete prepares for a game right? [Read more.]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Have a great weekend! In service, Coach Tony CEO/Founder, Coach.me Coach.me: 5 Ways to Coach and Be Coached First: Get the app for iOS, Android, or use Coach.me on the web! Here's your links: Next: Choose your level and style of coaching! [Self-coaching](. Free Coach.me is the world’s best goal tracking app—and it's completely free to use on the web at [Coach.me]( or download it here: [Apple]( or [Android](. [Heavy Mental](. $20/month Our Heavy Mental program is focused on productivity and happiness via cutting edge research and high-leverage exercises to help you make major life improvements. Every Sunday, you get an exclusive newsletter in your email. Then, every day you get an exercise delivered right in the Coach.me app to guide you along the theme for that week and a lively discussion with Coach.me Founder, Tony Stubblebine, and other participants in the Heavy Mental Q&A. [Individual Habit Coaching](. $19.99/wk or $64.99/month Get accountability, support, and advice to help you nail any new habit. Your coach checks in with you via private chat about once a day. Get a free 3-day trail with any coach! [Leadership coaching](. $250/month It's never too early for your first executive coach. Take control of your career and get the mentorship you need to move up. Then: keep leveling up your habits and skills by adding new goals OR [becoming a coach yourself]( Did you enjoy this email? We want you to be happy about getting emails from Coach.me! We'd love for you to share this with a friend by forwarding this email, or by posting to Twitter or Facebook. As a Coach.me member, you're part of a network of people helping each other reach their goals. Your shares are an important way for us to build our community! Use these links to share: [Share]( [Tweet]( [Share]( [Forward]( Did a friend forward this to you? We share tips, special offers, and announcements to help you reach your top potential. Don't miss out! [Subscribe to the Coach.me Newsletter]( Build your career. Get in shape. Learn a new skill. Coach.me is a free app and website that helps you track your personal improvement toward goals. And our expert coaches and exclusive coaching programs give you extra support to reach them! Copyright © 2018 Lift Worldwide, All rights reserved. You're receiving this email as part of your account for Coach.me. Our mailing address is: Lift Worldwide 92 Fort Greene Place #3Brooklyn, NY 11217 [Add us to your address book](//coach.us5.list-manage.com/vcard?u=b63a335429513c468aec8add7&id=83f57d5381) Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](