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How to Manage Meetings : Improve Problem Solving; Encourage Participation; Keep Control.
2011
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Title
How to Manage Meetings : Improve Problem Solving; Encourage Participation; Keep Control.
Author
Edition
Second edition.
Item Type
Book
Description
1 online resource (176 pages).
ISBN
9780749463434 electronic book
Summary
How to Manage Meetings analyses every aspect of holding a meeting and provides reliable advice on how to get it right.
Note
Description based upon print version of record.
How to Manage Meetings analyses every aspect of holding a meeting and provides reliable advice on how to get it right.
How to Manage Meetings analyses every aspect of holding a meeting and provides reliable advice on how to get it right.
Formatted Contents Note
Contents
Introduction
1 What is a meeting?
A group thinking together
Why hold meetings?
Why meetings fail
How meetings are changing
The three golden rules of effective meetings
2 How groups work
Individuals and groups
How groups develop
Understanding the structure of groups
How groups behave
Managing the group
3 Conversation: the heart of the meeting
What is conversation?
Why conversations go wrong in meetings
Confrontation and debate
The seven skills of effective conversation
4 Preparing for the meeting
Three key roles.
Preparing to chair
The administrator's role
Preparing to participate
5 Chairing the meeting
'Air traffic control': the Chair as leader
Opening the meeting
Managing agenda items
Closing the meeting
6 Improving the group's thinking
First-stage thinking and second-stage thinking
Four thinking conversations
Making our thinking visible.
Introduction
1 What is a meeting?
A group thinking together
Why hold meetings?
Why meetings fail
How meetings are changing
The three golden rules of effective meetings
2 How groups work
Individuals and groups
How groups develop
Understanding the structure of groups
How groups behave
Managing the group
3 Conversation: the heart of the meeting
What is conversation?
Why conversations go wrong in meetings
Confrontation and debate
The seven skills of effective conversation
4 Preparing for the meeting
Three key roles.
Preparing to chair
The administrator's role
Preparing to participate
5 Chairing the meeting
'Air traffic control': the Chair as leader
Opening the meeting
Managing agenda items
Closing the meeting
6 Improving the group's thinking
First-stage thinking and second-stage thinking
Four thinking conversations
Making our thinking visible.
Series
Creating Success.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Barker, Alan How to Manage Meetings : Improve Problem Solving; Encourage Participation; Keep Control London : Kogan Page,c2011
Published
London : Kogan Page, 2011.
Language
English
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