The Manager's Guide to Effective MeetingsMcGraw Hill Professional, 2002 M10 22 - 187 pages Now translated into 11 languages! This reader-friendly, icon-rich series is must reading for all managers at every level All managers, whether brand new to their positions or well established in the corporate heirarchy, can use a little "brushing up" now and then. The skills-based Briefcase Books series is filled with ideas and strategies to help managers become more capable, efficient, effective, and valuable to their corporations. The Manager's Guide to Effective Meetings is a hands-on guide to planning and conducting meetings that fellow professionals will want to attend. It provides techniques for keeping a meeting focused and on target, reveals latest tools for meeting "virtually," and more. This latest addition to the popular Briefcase Books series will prove invaluable to anyone who has to plan or conduct meetings, in any environment. |
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... Decide on Your Methods 17 Allocate Time 22 Sequence the Items 25 Who Should Meet? 26 When and Where Should You Meet? 31 Finalize and Distribute the Agenda 34 Prepare Materials 38 Manager's Checklist for Chapter 2 41 3. Starting the ...
... decide that if it's acceptable for a group to be ineffective and inefficient, it's OK for individuals, too.) Of course, it's likely that your employees will have concerns about the inability Treat Meetings Like Work! Perhaps the single ...
... decide whether to hold a meeting or to find an alternative: • If the purpose suggests that it would be a presented, informational meeting, then you might want to consider alternatives for getting that information out. At the very least ...
... decide on your goals, the outcomes toward which the meeting will be directed. That's how you'll measure whether the meeting has succeeded or failed: did you achieve your goals? Your goals don't need to be fancy. For each thing that you ...
... Decide. on. Your. Methods. For each purpose and the goals that you set you should choose an appropriate method. That seems only logical—but the logic is often neglected and misunderstood. Michael Begeman, manager of the 3M Meeting Network ...
Contents
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Chapter 3 Starting the Meeting | 42 |
Chapter 4 Conducting the Meeting | 62 |
Chapter 5 Closing the Meeting and Following Up | 89 |
Chapter 6 Techniques and Tools | 111 |
Chapter 7 UhOh Now What? Problems and Possibilities | 135 |
Chapter 8 Technological Tools and Meeting Virtually | 158 |
Index | 179 |