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How many meetings have you attended that are boring, unproductive and a waste of time? Meetings should be about getting results 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. All the key topics are dealt with, 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.
Alan Barker is Managing Partner of Direction, a learning consultancy that works to develop creativity and skilled communication. He is also the author of Improve your Communication Skills, another best-selling title in the Creating Success series published by Kogan Page.
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. All the key topics are dealt with, 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.
Alan Barker is Managing Partner of Direction, a learning consultancy that works to develop creativity and skilled communication. He is also the author of Improve your Communication Skills, another best-selling title in the Creating Success series published by Kogan Page.