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ISBN10: 0071596100 | ISBN13: 9780071596107

Plan and Conduct Effective Meetings: 24 Steps to Generate Meaningful Results, 1st Edition

ISBN10: 0071596100
ISBN13: 9780071596107
By Barbara J. Streibel

© 2007 Published August 15, 2007

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RUN BUSINESS MEETINGS THAT ARE FOCUSED, PRODUCTIVE, AND BENEFICIAL TO YOUR ORGANIZATION

In business, meetings are necessary but not always efficient. But by using the principles in Plan and Conduct Effective Meetings, you'll discover 24 easy-to-implement techniques geared to make your meetings more productive than ever before.

This step-by-step guide goes straight to the heart of meeting planning and facilitating, explaining why meetings go wrong and what to do about it. You'll learn to conduct meetings that stay sharply focused; turn participants into valuable contributors; and make decisions that result in actionable tasks. This guide also discusses video- and teleconferencing, so you can use those powerful technologies to your advantage, too. Plus, you'll:

  • Discover how preparation can guarantee meeting success
  • Learn to begin each meeting with a purpose and end with an accomplishment
  • Understand each participant's role, to increase productivity
  • Discover how to deal with problems during meetings
  • Find out how to neutralize time-wasting interpersonal conflicts
  • Get tips on using technology to hold virtual meetings

Introduction: Make meetings effective

01 Use meetings smarterAccept mediocrity

02 Decide—to meet or notDon’t think, just meet

03 Set goals, choose meansGather, gavel, and go

04 Decide how to decideFlip a coin

05 Schedule Stay free and loose

06 Pick and prepareInvite everybody

07 Set the sceneSchedule and go

08 Assign rolesDo it all yourself

09 Start rightJump into the agenda

10 Agree on ground rules Forgo rules

11 Conduct the meetingGo with the flow

12 Inform and discussDecide quickly and act

13 Direct trafficChoose: control or chaos

14 Work with styles Treat people all the same

15 Get a decisionTalk the issue to death

16 Close the meetingStop and go

17 EvaluateBe glad it’s over

18 Provide minutesTrust memories and mouths

19 Work and improveSchedule and wait

20 Identify causesReady, fire, aim

21 Get lots of ideasGo with the first idea

22 Evaluate optionsFlip a coin

23 Decide and planPick an option and do it

24 Meet virtuallyMeet same time, same place

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