Energize Your Meetings With Laughter
 Sheila Feigelson
 (Reviewed by The Editor - Rebecca Brown)
 1998 ASCD
  ISBN: 0871203154
Amazon's price is: $13.95

Humor sparks creativity, the “stuff” of effective meetings. Whether your meetings are for decision-making or learning, for networking or celebration, for facilitators or a participants, the positive power of humor brings energy & productivity to both large & small gatherings.

Sheila Feigelson comes from a long line of appreciators of humor, & her book offers ways in which to liven up those hours of dry statistics & logistics, or solemnity & sadness. Laughter is, after all, only an upside-down frown.

Included are such commonplace yet defining activities anyone who habitually attends meetings confronts: Making Room for Laughter; Destructive and Constructive Humor; Give Humor a Chance; Four Major Types of Meetings; Name Tags: More Than Meets the Eye; Finding a Place to Sit; Look Who's Here: Introducing Participants; The Power of Droodles; Fun With Food; The Power of the Prune; Ending Meetings on a Positive Note; The Power of Saying Thanks; Inviting Laughter to Your Next Meeting & much, much more!

For those who have always admired Ashleigh Brilliant's puissant aphorisms (& I am one of them!) you will once again be tickled by his humor. For those too young to remember those fluorescent postcards that flooded the mail & were stuck on just about everyone's refrigerators a generation ago, you are in for a treat, because Sheila Feigelson includes some of his more telling & hilarious sayings.

Read this little book before your meetings become grey with dullness. Before the seriousness of business seems to sink everyone into boredom's bog. Before your co-workers become collective bumps on a log. Before you realize you want to get the energy flowing again, to accomplish with elan the tasks set before your gathering.

Well written, lots of delightful graphics & game plans, lightly treating a serious subject, Energize Your Meetings With Laughter will repay you for every penny you spent!

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(09/15/02)

Rebecca