The Manager's Guide to Effective Meetings

by Barbara J. Streibel

Techniques for Turning Each Meeting into an Open Exchange of Ideas--and a Value-Adding Asset for Your Organization

Meetings can either be the bane of employee life or they can help facilitate the cooperation needed to efficiently and effectively work together.

When was the last time you had a meeting that was so well organized and efficient that EVERYONE in the room complimented you?

Look to this latest volume in McGraw-Hill's popular Briefcase Books series for field-proven techniques and strategies to:

· Begin each meeting with purpose--and end it with accomplishment

· Head off time-wasting interpersonal conflicts and turf battles

· Learn how to use technology to hold "virtual" meetings

In our increasingly collaborative work environment, the ability to manage results-driven meetings has become a critical career asset. Let The Manager's Guide to Effective Meetings provide you with a step-by-step template for energizing your next meeting, and transforming it from a roomful of clock-watching individuals into a collaboration of involved and enthusiastic partners.

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. The book teaches readers how to create an agenda, starting and ending meetings on time, stimulate discussion and participation, deal with conflict, focus on achieving meeting goals, providing good leadership, delivering effective meeting presentations etc.

The use of easy-to-read formatting helps to make this book user friendly and, best of all, the shaded hint boxes with snippets of information make the suggestions, cautions, and concepts easy to remember when it counts most!

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