Leading Productive Management Meetings - L7

Summary

In this chapter I had learned to do as the following:

- decide when a meeting is the best forum
- complete essential meeting planning
- conduct a productive meeting
- manage meeting problems and conflict
- ensure meetings lead to action

This chapter focuses on how to plan and conduct productive meeting. We should primarily determine when a meeting is the best forum. The next step is completing the essential planning by

(1) clarifying purpose and expected outcome
(2) determining topics for the agenda
(3) selecting attendees
(4) considering the setting
(5) determining when to meet and
(6) establishing needed meeting information.

When the meeting problems and conflicts happened,skilled facilitators should be prepared to
1) handle some of the most common meeting problems
2) manage meeting conflict
3) deal with issues arising from cultural differences.