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    Running Meetings (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)
    Running Meetings (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)
    Running Meetings (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)
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    Running Meetings (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)

    By Harvard Business Review

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    Whether you're new to running meetings or a seasoned executive with no time to waste, leading effective (and even pleasant!) meetings is a must. Running Meetings guides you through the basics of:

    • Crafting a useful agenda
    • Inviting the right team members
    • Making sure everyone's voice is heard while avoiding conflict
    • Capturing decisions, ideas, and follow-up tasks

    Don't have much time? Get up to speed fast on the most essential business skills with HBR's 20-Minute Manager series. Whether you need a crash course or a brief refresher, each book in the series is a concise, practical primer that will help you brush up on a key management topic. Advice you can quickly read and apply, for ambitious professionals and aspiring executives--from the most trusted source in business. Also available as an ebook.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarvard Business Review Press
    Release dateMay 6, 2014
    ISBN9781625272300
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    Running Meetings (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series) - Harvard Business Review

    Running Meetings

    Get up to speed fast on essential business skills. Whether you’re looking for a crash course or a brief refresher, you’ll find just what you need in HBR’s 20-Minute Manager series—foundational reading for ambitious professionals and aspiring executives. Each book is a concise, practical primer, so you’ll have time to brush up on a variety of key management topics.

    Advice you can quickly read and apply, from the most trusted source in business.

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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Running meetings.

          pages cm. — (20-minute manager series)

       ISBN 978-1-62527-225-6 (alk. paper)

    1. Business meetings. 2. Meetings.

       HF5734.5.R858 2014

       658.4'56—dc23

                                         2014004937

    eISBN: 978-1-62527-230-0

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    Running a meeting can be an excellent way to make a decision, gather ideas, or inspire a team—not to mention an excellent opportunity to demonstrate your organizational, motivational, collaborative, and leadership skills. But we often fail to approach meetings with the kind of discipline and attention that they deserve, and so things frequently don’t go as well as they could. This book will help you with the basics so you can make every meeting as productive as possible:

    • Setting the right agenda

    • Picking the right people for the meeting—and making sure they attend

    • Executing your plan

    • Energizing your team

    • Hosting virtual participants successfully

    • Managing conflict

    • Making decisions

    • Ensuring effective follow-through on tasks after the meeting

    Contents

    Running Effective Meetings

    Preparing for Your Meeting

    Why are you meeting?

    Setting an agenda

    Identifying the right participants

    Making the invitation

    Finishing your preparations

    Do you really need a meeting?

    Meeting preparation checklist

    Leading Your Meeting

    Starting the meeting

    Executing the agenda

    Closing the meeting

    The Day After: Making Your Meeting Stick

    The follow-up note

    How did you do?

    Meeting follow-up checklist

    Running Specific Types of Meetings

    Solving a problem

    Making a decision

    Virtual meetings

    When Good Meetings Go Bad, and

    How to Fix Them

    What to do if

    Learn More

    Sources

    Index

    Running Meetings

    Running Effective Meetings

    Running Effective Meetings

    Most of us have attended too many meetings where the meeting organizer was anything but organized. Perhaps he called a meeting to make an important decision, but didn’t send out the critical information to prepare in advance—so we spent the entire meeting skimming data and only half focusing on the decision at hand. Perhaps he sent out the presentation deck in advance but didn’t think to invite the team’s leader, though she needed to endorse the final choice. Perhaps he just invited everyone to brainstorm, but nobody

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