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Running Effective Meetings For Dummies

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Running Effective Meetings For Dummies

Wiley,

15 minutes de lecture
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There are many ways to improve your meetings, and they aren’t dumb at all.  

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Around 139 million business meetings happen daily. Global opinions aren’t in, but US employees rank 51% of their meetings as “poor.” Meeting scientist Joseph A. Allen and writer Karin M. Reed explain how to make those sessions less painful and “more productive.” Their remarkably comprehensive guide, covering the details from planning to summing up, teaches team managers and other leaders how to stage and run effective face-to-face and virtual meetings and how to handle even the most exotic hybrid combinations. Allen and Reed show you how to beat “Zoom fatigue” and convene meetings that make a difference. 

Summary

Planning, organizing, and leading meetings can be difficult.   

Meetings are essential to organizations of every type, yet planning and running them is not easy. Many meetings are boring, counter-productive time-wasters. And those flaws are seldom confined to just one dull, time-consuming meeting. Research suggests that every lousy meeting requires three follow-up meetings to straighten out the mess the first bad meeting created. This is grossly inefficient.

Making your meetings more effective is one good way to cut down on the need for more meetings. Bad meetings lead to stress, employee disengagement, and lackluster performance. Because meetings occur so frequently, many people find that going to meetings seems to be their job. One estimate holds that managers in larger companies spend 75% of their work time on activities related to meetings.

The good news is that you can plan and lead more efficient, enjoyable, and productive meetings — making them valuable sessions your team members will see as important to their collaborative efforts. And the better your meetings are, the fewer of them you have to hold.

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About the Authors

Meeting scientist Joseph A. Allen, PhD, is a professor of industrial and organizational (I/O) psychology at the University of Utah. Karin M. Reed is an Emmy award-winning journalist and CEO of Speaker Dynamics.

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