INTRODUCTION

Take a moment to think about the most productive meeting that you’ve attended. What made it productive? Meetings have the potential to bring a group of participants together to act as a brain trust. This group can often have a profound impact on an organization or in crafting the policies or decisions that need to be implemented to better the organization, its processes, or the environment in which employees are expected to perform. With such power possible, a key tenet of productive meetings is that the right people are invited and that their time is used wisely.

Employees at all levels spend a significant portion of their working lives in meetings. The time spent in meeting rooms needs to be effective and goal oriented to offset ...

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