Available Now! Surviving the Horror of Online Meetings
I’m very happy to announce my new book, Surviving the Horror of Online Meetings, is available now on Amazon!
This book has been a labor of love with friends and colleagues including Lauren Green, Heather Martinez, and Mark Monlux. I’ve drawn best practices from The Grove Consultants, Liberating Structures, Red Teaming, and many other facilitation disciplines and applied them to online facilitation. It’s a collection of the tips, tricks and methods I’ve learned from years of teaching, designing, and delivering virtual facilitation.
What’s the book all about? Surviving the Horror of Online Meetings is all about designing and delivering great virtual meetings.
In it, you’ll find:
How to prevent and overcome technology failures
How to manage difficult personalities
How to head off distraction and disengagement
How to show up as your best self
How to make decisions that stick
How to create an experience of trust, safety, engagement, and inclusion
It’s a survival guide for the online world. You can defeat the Meeting Monsters that lurk at the edges of online meetings.
What people are saying about Surviving the Horror of Online Meetings
“In this new normal we’re all participating in more online meetings. Brian’s fantastic new book captures what he’s learned the hard way in mastering online meetings into an espresso shot of ideas, practices, and tools to help you master online meetings too.”
“Brian Tarallo packed his book with hundreds of best practices that you can immediately use to unmask meeting monsters and make online time together more humane for both you and your participants.”
“Brian’s book of ‘frights’ appears after a year of pandemic enforced on-line meetings, and what is looking to be an unprecedented acceleration in the use of collaboration technology. I read his suggestions through the filter of 45 years of experience in this field and a complete pivot to on-line work myself, and it rings true and comprehensive. Bravo! My adrenaline is already pumping as I see those gremlins running for cover.”
Don’t be a victim to bad online meetings! Even if you’re not a professional facilitator, Surviving the Horror of Online Meetings will show you how to take the dread out of online meetings. With an eye towards inclusion and equitable decision making, it will teach you to translate in-person meetings to the virtual space. It’s an essential guide on how to create productive spaces for the people online.