Planning and Conducting Productive Meetings
“It is quality rather than quantity that matters”
—Seneca
A. Things to Know
1. Planning Meetings
• Meetings are probably the single biggest consumer of a manager’s time.
• Unless your meeting has a clear purpose, don’t hold it.
• A meeting’s benefits should exceed the time and effort expended to hold it.
• There are two primary reasons for holding meetings:
1. To share information
2. To solve problems
• Other legitimate reasons include:
1. To make decisions or gain support and acceptance for decisions made
2. To secure immediate reactions and feedback on topics being discussed
3. To promote teamwork ...
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