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title: "Infographic: 8 Types of Meeting Personalities • Generis"
description: "Meeting Misery: Meeting Makeover Edition  This year in Corporate America–that’s your company and mine–we are going waste over $37 Billion attending meetings. It is well documented that meetings are a source of pain and great frustration due to high levels of inefficiency and ineffectiveness. Over the last 25 years, we have identified the eight most common meeting personalities that create this Meeting Misery! Find out more about the 8 types of meeting personalities below. Competitive Solutions, Inc. has a three step Meeting Makeover Solution to be applied to a single team, a specific department, or an entire organization. Find out how to get these 8 personalities out of your meetings, and end your meeting misery today! Shane Yount, Principal & Author at Competitive Solutions, will also be speaking on Business Bootcamp – Driving Greater Execution, Engagement, And Ultimately, Earnings! at our Amerian Manufacturing Summit taking place March 28-29th in Chicago, IL. View the full infographic below!"
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# Infographic: 8 Types of Meeting Personalities

- March 21, 2017

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**Meeting Misery: Meeting Makeover Edition **

> This year in Corporate America–that’s your company and mine–we are going waste over $37 Billion attending meetings. It is well documented that meetings are a source of pain and great frustration due to high levels of inefficiency and ineffectiveness.
> 
> Over the last 25 years, we have identified the eight most common meeting personalities that create this Meeting Misery! Find out more about the 8 types of meeting personalities below.

[Competitive Solutions, Inc.](http://csipbl.com/) has a three step [Meeting Makeover Solution](http://csipbl.com/consulting/process-based-leadership/communication/meetings/#contact) to be applied to a single team, a specific department, or an entire organization. Find out how to get these 8 personalities out of your meetings, and end your meeting misery today!

Shane Yount, Principal & Author at Competitive Solutions, will also be speaking on *Business Bootcamp – Driving Greater Execution, Engagement, And Ultimately, Earnings!*at our [Amerian Manufacturing Summit](http://manusummit.com/) taking place March 28-29th in Chicago, IL.

View the full infographic below!

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