{"id":2438,"date":"2017-05-18T01:26:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T06:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2438"},"modified":"2017-05-06T08:30:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T13:30:43","slug":"the-pre-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2017\/05\/the-pre-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pre-Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>The pre-meeting is one of the better techniques for holding a successful meeting.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Want to have a &#8220;good&#8221; meeting, i.e., one where the outcome is to my liking? Hold a pre-meeting. Meet before the meeting. Plan what you and yours will do and say in the meeting. Plan what you and yours won&#8217;t do and say in the meeting. Understand the focus. Stick to the topic. Resist any temptation to stray to other things.<\/p>\n<p>In other words&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>rehearse<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the reasons those TED talks are so good is that they rehearse. They have a pre-talk before the talk. They pre-talk over and over and make the talk focused, to the topic, tight, with no straying.<\/p>\n<p>Rehearsal works. Pre-meetings work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips The pre-meeting is one of the better techniques for holding a successful meeting. Want to have a &#8220;good&#8221; meeting, i.e., one where the outcome is to my liking? Hold a pre-meeting. Meet before the meeting. Plan what you and yours will do and say in the meeting. Plan what you and yours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,25],"tags":[154,147],"class_list":["post-2438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-meetings","tag-communication","tag-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2439,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions\/2439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}