Recommended: Good In A Room

Being in entertainment means taking a lot of meetings. Job interviews, pitch meetings, investor meetings, actor meet-and-greets, press meetings, do-I-like-you-enough-to-want-you-on-my-project meetings. It never ends. Often there are meetings to prep for the real meeting!

The term ‘good in a room’ originally referred to writers, directors, producers, and others who excelled at pitching stories/projects in meetings with decision-makers. They would walk out, sometimes miraculously, with a done deal.

The author of “Good In A Room,” Stephanie Palmer, was a studio executive for many years who participated in thousands of meetings. Having a theater-directing background, she sat in these meetings with a critical eye on performance and figured out what it took to ace the meeting, to close the deal, to walk away with the job, the assignment, the part, the money.

And when she left the studio development world, she started working one-on-one with Hollywood players and wannabe players, and then with people from all walks of life who wanted to be able to better sell whatever they had to sell in those all-important meetings.

“Good In A Room” is an easy-to-read breakdown of what goes into a good meeting performance, as well as how to develop relationships and actually getthose meetings, and how to reach out over the phone and via email and have the outcome you desire. It’s like a textbook for the human interaction side of the business and it’s definitely worth the time it takes to read it (or listen on MP3 if you prefer). In fact, you may find yourself returning to it over and over again as you progress in your entertainment career.

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