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Running Meetings (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)
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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.
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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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Running Meetings
Lead with confidence
Move your project forward
Manage conflicts
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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
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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