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Leading Your Meeting
E
ven if you’ve prepared carefully, you can’t
just arrive on time to your meeting and as-
sume that your excellent agenda will ensure
all goes well. A skillful meeting leader needs to ac-
tively keep a gathering on track.
The best meeting leaders play a number of differ-
ent roles throughout the gathering, all while main-
taining their authority. You should expect to take on
the roles of gatekeeper, devil’s advocate, consensus
builder, cheerleader, or even joker—whatever en-
courages people to contribute and keeps the team
productive.
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