Leading Effective Meetings

Do you often feel that you’re required to attend meaningless meetings?



Have you ever “tuned out” to respond to texts or emails when others digressed on tangents?



Do you ever leave a meeting frustrated that the group did not come to a decision about an urgent matter?



Then why suffer through another monotonous business meeting?

Apply the basics and best practices in managing business meetings to get results––or neglect them and waste everyone's time.



If you’re serious about how to conduct a meeting—whether at work or in your neighborhood committee role, you must master how to conduct a meeting that leads to results.



Be known as a meeting leader who gets things done! Among other excellent business meeting techniques, you’ll learn to:

•Build an effective meeting agenda

•Encourage participation—if you want it,

•Avoid situations that can derail the meeting

•Lead with personal credibility and excellent presentation skills

•Shorten the process leading to quality decision-making with appropriate analysis and meeting discussion techniques

•Deal effectively with problem participants by using masterful facilitation skills.



In this slim book, Dianna Booher offers 72 tips that will help you with every aspect of running a productive meeting--from assessing whether a meeting is necessary to rewarding the creativity and hard work of meeting participants.



Consultant to more than half of the Fortune 500 and award-winning author of 49 books (published by Simon and Schuster/Pocket Books, Random House, McGraw-Hill, Wiley, Warner, and Thomas Nelson), Dianna Booher provides readers with the same business meeting tips that she and her team routinely teach in their meeting facilitation training programs.



So take charge! Lead your next meeting productively and end with profitable outcomes to show for your time and effort!