Chapter seven. Leading Productive Meetings.

Summary:

Meetings are how an organization says, “you are a member.” So if every day go to boring meetings full of the boring people, then that is boring company. To avoid creating a negative atmosphere around meetings in company, have to know that is “The Seven Deadly Sins of Meetings.”

The Seven Deadly Sins of Meetings

1. People don’t take meetings seriously

2. Meetings are too long

3. People wander off the topic

4. Nothing happens once the meeting ends

5. People don’t tell the truth

6. Meetings are always missing around important information, so they postpone critical decisions

7. Meetings never get better

This chapter is going to help to avoid these seven deadly sins and, how make to plan and conduct productive meetings by determining when a meeting is the best forum for achieving required results; establishing objectives, outcomes, and agenda; performing essential planning, clarifying roles and establishing ground rules; using common problems-solving techniques; managing meetings problems; and ensuring follow up occurs.
The chapter has the following objectives:

· Deciding when meetings are the best forum

· Completing essential meeting planning

· Conducting a productive meeting

· Managing meeting problems and conflict

· Ensuring meetings lead to action

Meetings can be small and large, internal or external, frequent or infrequent. This chapter focused primarily on small-group meetings intended to accomplish tasks or move actions forward inside an organization since these are the most prevalent types of professional meetings.