Managing Meetings (Dk Essential Managers) - Softcover

Hindle, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0789424479 ISBN 13: 9780789424471

Publisher: Dk Pub, 1999

Synopsis

Learn all you need to know about meetings from planning and preparing an agenda to establishing formal procedures and dealing with potentially volatile situations. "Managing Meetings" shows how to chair and participate fully in a meeting plus it also provides practical techniques for you to use to make meetings work for you. Power tips help you handle real-life situations and develop first-cl meeting s that will dramatically improve efficiency and decisiveness. This innovative series covers a wide range of management and personal development topics. Each title is a comprehensive yet compact source of easy reference for all those in or aspiring to a position of responsibility with a focus on developing and enhancing professional management practice.

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Review

Many of us are involved in meetings of one sort or another. At work, as volunteers in local organisations, in less formal social and semi-social settings, and at larger public meetings where our views could sway far-reaching decisions. Managing Meetings is primarily aimed at businesses, but its guidelines and help will be of use in other situations too.

There is good advice on how to prepare for a meeting, covering topics like setting the agenda, organising the location and seating arrangements. A very informative chapter aimed specifically at people chairing meetings offers advice on areas like keeping order, setting and managing the pace, and using formal procedures; while attendees will benefit from general guidelines on taking an active role and listening to others. Oh, and bearing in mind how many unnecessary meetings we seem to attend, it is good to see a special section devoted to deciding if you need a meeting at all. --Sandra Vogel

About the Author

Robert Heller is a leading authority in the world of management consultancy and was the founding editor of Britain’s top management magazine, Management Today. He is much in demand as a conference speaker in Europe, North and South America, and the Far East. As editorial director of Haymarket Publishing Group, Robert Heller supervised the launch of several highly successful magazines such as Campaign, Computing and Accountancy Age. His many acclaimed – and worldwide bestselling – books include The Naked Manager, Culture Shock, The Age of the Common Millionaire, The Way to Win (with Will Carling), The Complete Guide to Modern Management, and In Search of European Excellence.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dk Pub
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0789424479
• ISBN 13: 9780789424471
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 70