How to Manage Meetings
1st Edition
Published on 30. April 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-7494-3806-7 (ISBN)
Description
Praise and Reviews
Communication expert Alan Barker analyses every aspect of holding a meeting and provides reliable advice on how to get it right.
KEEP CONTROL
ENCOURAGE EFFECTIVE PARTICIPATION
MAKE A PERSUASIVE PRESENTATION
LEARN THE GOLDEN RULES
How many meetings have you attended that are boring, unproductive and a waste of time? People are spending more and more time in meetings and most of us have horror stories of some we have been forced to endure. Meetings are about getting results -- they are a mechanism for achieving action and the need to improve them has never been more urgent.
In How to Manage Meetings, communication expert Alan Barker analyses every aspect of holding a meeting and provides reliable advice on how to get it right. Key topics are dealt with in the author's approachable style, including:
preparing for a meeting;
effective participation;
chairing a meeting;
group dynamics;
problem solving within a group;
different types of meeting;
follow-up actions.
Whether you are a chair, participant or minute taker, you are partly responsible for the success of a meeting and can find ways to manage them better. If you are frustrated at the waste of time, effort and energy in your organisation's meetings and want to get results, this book is for you.
Communication expert Alan Barker analyses every aspect of holding a meeting and provides reliable advice on how to get it right.
KEEP CONTROL
ENCOURAGE EFFECTIVE PARTICIPATION
MAKE A PERSUASIVE PRESENTATION
LEARN THE GOLDEN RULES
How many meetings have you attended that are boring, unproductive and a waste of time? People are spending more and more time in meetings and most of us have horror stories of some we have been forced to endure. Meetings are about getting results -- they are a mechanism for achieving action and the need to improve them has never been more urgent.
In How to Manage Meetings, communication expert Alan Barker analyses every aspect of holding a meeting and provides reliable advice on how to get it right. Key topics are dealt with in the author's approachable style, including:
preparing for a meeting;
effective participation;
chairing a meeting;
group dynamics;
problem solving within a group;
different types of meeting;
follow-up actions.
Whether you are a chair, participant or minute taker, you are partly responsible for the success of a meeting and can find ways to manage them better. If you are frustrated at the waste of time, effort and energy in your organisation's meetings and want to get results, this book is for you.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 135 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7494-3806-7 (9780749438067)
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Alan Barker
How to Manage Meetings
Book
11/2006
1st Edition
Kogan Page Ltd
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Person
Alan Barker
Alan Barker is Managing Partner of Direction, a learning consultancy that works to develop creativity and skilled communication. A prolific writer, he is the author of Improve your Communication Skills, How to be Better at Managing People, 30 Minutes to Brainstorm Great Ideas, 30 Minutes Before a Meeting and How to Manage Meetings (all published by Kogan Page).
Alan Barker is Managing Partner of Direction, a learning consultancy that works to develop creativity and skilled communication. A prolific writer, he is the author of Improve your Communication Skills, How to be Better at Managing People, 30 Minutes to Brainstorm Great Ideas, 30 Minutes Before a Meeting and How to Manage Meetings (all published by Kogan Page).
Content
Part 1 What is a meeting?: a group thinking together; why hold meetings?; why meetings fail; the golden rules of effective meetings. Part 2 How groups work: individuals and groups; how groups develop; understanding the structure of groups; how groups behave; managing the group; summary. Part 3 Preparing for the meeting: clarifying your objectives; who is involved?; when and where?; setting the procedure preparing briefing papers working with the administrator. Part 4 What's on the agenda?: why have an agenda?; constructing the agenda; watching the clock. Part 5 Chairing the meeting: leadership in meetings; opening the meeting; managing agenda items; closing the meeting. Part 6 Conversation: the heart of the meeting; the dynamics of conversation; dialogue or debate?; beyond adversarial thinking; improving the meeting's thinking; four types of conversation. Part 7 participating wellenquiry and advocacy; three ways to encourage participation stating your case. Part 8 Problem solving in meetings: thinking about problems the dynamics of problem solving. Part 9 After the meeting: the chair - following up actions; the administrator - writing the minutes; participating after the meeting. Part 10 Different meetings and how to run them: team meetings; negotiations; brainstorming sessions; mealtime meetings; electronic meetings; international meetings.