The Manager's Guide to Effective Meetings

In this summary you will learn

• Everything you need to know about conducting meetings
• How to put that knowledge into practice

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Why you should read The Manager's Guide to Effective Meetings

This is a handy, short, to-the-point guide about how to conduct meetings. Much of what author Barbara J. Streibel says is common sense, but any manager charged with running meetings knows how quickly common sense goes out the window in that setting. The author covers all of the bases and provides a series of useful checklists to help harried managers meet more effectively and efficiently. Streibel also provides many helpful references to other books that discuss specific techniques and practices. While little here is wildly original, getAbstract.com finds that the author gives fresh, lucid and practical treatment to tried-and-true guidance.

About the Author

Barbara J. Streibel is co-author of The Team Handbook and Building United Judgment: A Handbook for Consensus Decision Making. She is a consultant and manager of intellectual capital at Oriel Incorporated, a consulting and training firm in Madison, Wisconsin.