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Meetings are unavoidable--but they don&;t have to be unproductive. This tool-packed guide will help readers transform meetings from time-sinks to springboards for effective action by learning how to: - Set smart agendas - Keep meetings on track - Handle problem behaviors and time-wasters - Motivate participants to take action. Review: great book - short, concicse but has a lot of great insights on how to prepare for, lead and follow up on meetings. A great handbook that's a value added guide for a person to review before any meeting. Review: Useful book - It's not rocket science, but this is a very useful little book. I use it with students, share with friends. People who run meetings should read things like this, even if you THINK you know how to run a good meeting! The checklists are particularly useful.
| Best Sellers Rank | #5,171,424 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #210 in Running Meetings & Presentations (Books) #927 in Communication Skills #26,869 in Business Management (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.0 out of 5 stars 107 Reviews |
S**5
great book
short, concicse but has a lot of great insights on how to prepare for, lead and follow up on meetings. A great handbook that's a value added guide for a person to review before any meeting.
H**R
Useful book
It's not rocket science, but this is a very useful little book. I use it with students, share with friends. People who run meetings should read things like this, even if you THINK you know how to run a good meeting! The checklists are particularly useful.
S**X
Great book
I needed this for my Marketing 539 class in the MBA program. Thank you.
L**Z
Good book but very elemental
Book with elemental stuff for improving meetings, will give you some hints but no more than you may already know.
J**,
Quite useful and practical guide
I found this book immensely useful - written in very simple language.
R**S
Need a briefing on the basics of running a meeting effectively? Look no further.
Running Meetings is one of the volumes in the 20 Minute Manager series created by the editors at Harvard Business Review Press. About 90 pages in length, prepared in collaboration with several experts who are identified, each volume provides essential material in the form of a crash course or brief reminder, "a concise practical primer that will help you brush up on a key management topic." Its purpose is to provide a briefing on the basics of an important business activity. It is NOT a comprehensive examination such as Kathleen Haas and Alice Zivala's excellent The Art and Power of Facilitation: Running Powerful Meetings. That book deserves its Five Star rating for an abundance of information, insights, and counsel. Running Meetings is a NOT an anthology of 10-12 HBR articles in their entirety. Rather, it authors suggest, "Whether you are new to running meetings or seasoned executive with no time to waste, leading effective (even pleasant) meetings is a must. Running Meetings guides you through basics." For example, when o Crafting a useful agenda My comment: Focus on what to do, not on what to "think about" doing o Inviting the right team members My comment: All team members do not need to attend all meetings. o Making sure everyone's voice is heard while avoiding conflict. My comment: OK, but I always encourage principled and relevant dissent. o Capturing decisions, ideas, and follow-up tasks. My comment: Accurate and detailed notes are always more reliable than anyone's memory. If you need more substantial guidance, there are other sources to consider, including aforementioned The Art and Power of Facilitation as well as others recommended on pages 105-109. The list price is $12.95 for the paperback edition but Amazon sells it in several formats and editions for less. The return on a modest investment will be limited only by how hard and how smart each reader applies effectively relevant material. One final point: There are no effective meeting issues. Only business issues.
O**G
Best Short Management books...
We started a lesson with out team members on improving on our skills. The series has been be very helpful.
C**E
Great resource for anyone looking to run more efficient and effective meetings
As an instructor and facilitator who runs workshops on numerous business topics, including "Running Effective Meetings," I have found most all the HBR Pocket Mentor books a great addition to our content. The Running Meetings book is especially good as it provides great case studies, examples, content, tips, and tools. We often use the "What Would You Do?" format used in the book in our workshops to make a point and get some great discussion going. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is looking to run more efficient and effective business meetings.
P**R
I love these books
I ordered all of the available books for my library at work. I work in Learning & Development and these books are great to recommend colleagues who need a bit of help. I find them packed with great info The read is bitesize and not too heavy You can learn such a lot in a very short time. Gets the whole business talking about theories and results from each of these books. Great. Thanks
D**F
A must read for prospective chairpersons
You should not be a chairperson until you read a resource like this
M**R
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B**N
Four Stars
Great ideas for modern meetings
F**.
parfait mais...
Produit conforme et de qualité rien à dire sur le sujet. Par contre le emarchant n'envoie pas de facture alors que je la lui ai demandé à plusieurs reprises...Dommage de ce manque de sérieux de la part du e-marchand. Attention , Merci au service clients d'intervenir pour fournir les factures avant email de plainte à Jeff Bezos Fondateur et PDG de Amazon Group par email
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