Welcome to the Tero September eZine
What is the easiest way to marginalize your career path? Just be mindless about how you lead and/or participate in meetings. Meetings are an opportunity to demonstrate your interpersonal effectiveness, influence outcomes, and differentiate yourself. Yet all too often meetings require difficult conversations that necessitate changing someone's mind, making your point heard, defending a process or solving complex issues. Without effective interpersonal skills, meetings themselves are simply difficult and can easily turn into a forum for people to see you at your worst. What a missed opportunity.
Meeting difficulties are most commonly due in part or in whole to interpersonal friction. In his book, People Skills, author Dr. Robert Bolton reports a study in which it was found that 80% of people who fail professionally, do so not because they aren't competent technically, but rather because they do not relate well with other people. He also maintains that people of all ages can learn skills that lead to improved interaction.
The following interpersonal skills are critical for effective meetings:
- Behaving ethically
- Valuing others
- Creatively addressing problems
- Withholding judgment
- Encouraging participation
- Challenging ideas
- Listening
- Being flexible
- Non-verbal communication
- Resolving conflict
- Reaching consensus
Easy to identify but challenging to demonstrate. Yet these and other skills to make meetings and us more effective can be learned. This month's eZine focuses on the characteristics of successful meetings, meeting leaders and participants. Come with us as we take a look at the skills to make meetings, even the difficult ones, worth their time. Implementing this month's skills will garner you greater results in what you can achieve as well positively affect how you are perceived.
Insight on Business Podcast - Michele Whitty
Our Certified Etiquette and Protocol Consultant and Trainer at Tero being interviewed on personal brand and business.
Book of the Month - Blink
Do you ever feel you will like someone the instant you meet them? We make a lot of snap judgments like this every day through what is called "Thin-slicing".
Ask Tero - Meetings
Find out answers to getting introverts to speak in meetings and what to do about team members interrupting meetings.
Development Challenge - Successful Meetings
Here's a "gold mine" of questions to be successful in meetings.
Featured Blog - Purposeful Meetings
3 quick tips to an effective meeting to make sure we are meeting for a purpose and not wasting minutes.
Tero Tip - Facilitating Meetings
Your perception as a person is formed by how others view you. Facilitating a meeting is a key time to influence not only the outcome of the meeting, but your persona.
2015 Iowa SHRM State Conference
We will have three engaging speakers at the SHRM Conference on October 8. Stop by the Tero booth to meet a member of the Tero Team between sessions.
Public Influence Workshop
How would you like to effectively do any of these items: Improve a process you and a co-worker disagree on, get a raise, resolve conflict?
Graduates Only - Planning Resources
Graduate of a Tero workshop? You have access to many meeting planning resources on Tero's graduate only site.
Inspiration - Achieving Results
Meetings are a catalyst to growth and achieving results. We need all hands in to make it happen.
