Meet with Impact: 40 visual tools for productive meetings and engaging workshops, November, 2019, reviewed

By @SimonCocking review of Meet with Impact: 40 visual tools for productive meetings and engaging workshops by Tom Russell. Available from Amazon here.

Meet With Impact gives you 40 exciting, engaging and easy visual tools to help make your meetings more productive and useful. Stuck in the same old slide-deck rut? There is a better way, and it’s explained right here. 

Like it or hate it we spend too much of our time in meetings, and even though many of these meetings may be deathly they are super important to our organisations. But they don’t have to be so dull.

Instead of reaching for your slide deck when you have an important meeting coming up, you’ll find practical inspiration that will help you plan a powerful meeting that gets stuff done.

With 40 tools that are colour-coded by type or use, you will be able to select a tool quickly and easily plus make notes for next time. Covering face-to-face and virtual meetings, you’ll spend less time in pointless meetings and get a reputation for running the best meetings.

Review of Meet with Impact: 40 visual tools for productive meetings and engaging workshops

This is a colourful, visual book. Of course you would be disappointed if it was anything but with a title like this. The decision to go with the landscape format rather than the portrait one (ie spread sideways, rather than read up and down like most books) is potentially a tricky one. Landscape format books are always more of a drag to hold and read, they tend to flop either to the left or the right.

Then again perhaps it makes it easier to flick through it, and it does enable a more visual presentation of its images, as you have a wider canvas to work with. In this case, based on the type of data and visuals they are trying to convey, this choice of format just about edges it.

In terms of the content, with 40 different tools selected, the number seems about right. Too few and there is too little to work with, too many and it can feel simply like a list, rather than having the space and time to examine them in any depth. Again, the selection of this number of tools seems to be about right. For the user it does give you a good, diverse range of options and different methodologies to try out.

If you have a slightly stolid boss, who is stuck in their ways, then this might be a fun, subtle Christmas present to give them, to give them a nudge to try and work a little more creatively and imaginatively in 2020!

Introducing the Meet with Impact Planner. Get your free copy today. #meetwithimpact #business #meetings https://t.co/K10bxlxRZ3

— TFP (@TFPartnership) December 5, 2019

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