Plan and Conduct Effective Meetings: 24 Steps to Generate Meaningful Results

**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

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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