Managing Effective Meetings
By Wilf Voss
Copyright 2012 Wilf Voss
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Contents
1.
Introduction
2.
Planning for effective meetings
3.
Meeting preparation
4.
Are you facilitating or chairing a meeting?
5.
Successful closing
6.
How to recap and follow-up
7.
Review
8.
About the author
1 – Introduction
It was James T. Kirk, Captain of the USS Enterprise who said – ‘A meeting is an event where minutes are taken and hours wasted’ and all too often this is the case. Far too many meetings are held without a real purpose and without the preparation required to make them effective for the individuals concerned.
Often it is too simple to call a meeting without considering some of the practical issues, for example the cost of meetings. To help you calculate costs, use the following equation: