Effective Meeting Skills, Revised (50-Minute Series) (Paperback)

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Product Description

This course will help you with all the meeting essentials—planning, creating an agenda, moderating conflict, and summarizing action items. Match the meeting structure to your goals. Solve common meeting problems. Stimulate discussions and participation.

Learning Objectives: To show how to conduct productive meetings. To present techniques for high-quality decision making. To provide meeting leadership skills.

Product Details

• Paperback: 97 pages
• Publisher: Crisp Publications; Revised edition (June 10, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560523859
• ISBN-13: 978-1560523857
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8.1 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #774,282 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

• This item is part of The Crisp 50 Minute Series.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Effective Meeting Skills, August 15, 2000

By	Greg Barrett (Houston, Texas) - See all my reviews

Nice, short, concise format for managers. Gets to the point with some meaningful tips beyond introductory level, going to addressing meeting problems and meeting follow-up and evaluation. Simple quizes to evaluate your understanding of the books content as you go. Example checklists help you get the meeting right.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Meeting Skills Review, September 12, 2005

By	J. Price "RedHead" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The book boiled down the basic skills and walked through how they should be implemented. I made a generic guide for myself and the quality of my meetings improved dramatically.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Handbook of Successful Meetings, December 5, 2006

By	Elijah Chingosho "Dr Elijah Chingosho" (Nairobi, Kenya) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Marion E. Haynes has written a book with a good grounding in planning, organizing and running effective meetings. Although the book is brief, it is packed with what it takes to plan, execute and manage productive meetings. The author highlights the critical role of the meeting leader to ensure that a meeting progresses to its stated goals, ensure that all participants make their contributions, moderate conflicts, deal with disruptive and inattentive participants, summarize action items and closing a meeting on an upbeat and positive note.

This is a well written book that is written in plain English and that is easy to follow and understand. Readers will learn, among other things, the importance of having clear agendas which states the purpose of the meeting, starting and ending meetings on time, problem solving, stimulating participation and discussion and writing the record of the meeting, following up on action items and evaluating meeting effectiveness.

The book is an important reference guide that is well worth reading.