This book will challenge the reader to take up the cause of re-inventing meetings as the powerful business tool they are, always have been and must be if we are to have high-performance, efficient organisations.

Key topics include:

• How and why meetings are often unproductive and don’t deliver their potential
• Overcoming those challenges to make meetings worth attending
• How to bring other people’s meetings round to greatness without causing offence
• Meeting planning.  How, in its usual form it leads to bad, under-performing meetings and how to plan a great meeting
• Learn to consider time in the context of “time-value” and “time-cost”. Meetings consume hours of time, equating to millions of £, $ and € every day
• The “Meeting Meter”.  Allowing attendees to work out the real cost of a proposed meeting

Author and partner at KSB Law, Chris Parr:  “Meetings and conferences can be such a waste of time and money – the primary aim of this book is to help companies stop wasting money and drive effective behaviour. The essence of the book is the use of the question: “WHY?”: Why am I calling this meeting? Why have I been asked to attend?

Chris Parr will be launching the book and speaking on the subject of Meeting Anarchism at International Confex, the UK’s biggest event for people organising events worldwide, on February 22, Earls Court, London.