Book description
Meetings are often poorly planned and executed events that produce no meaningful business results. How to Conduct Productive Meetings is a book designed to provide practical tools and advice for anyone planning or facilitating a meeting. Legendary evaluation guru Donald Kirkpatrick offers solid and timely advice to ensure that a meeting is necessary, the presentation is professional and effective, the participants contribute in constructive ways and the outcome is measurable.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Pretest
- Chapter 1. How to Determine When a Meeting is Necessary and Productive
- Chapter 2. The Costs and Causes of a Nonproductive Meeting
- Chapter 3. How to Coordinate a Meeting
- Chapter 4. How to Prepare for a Meeting
- Chapter 5. The Role of the Leader
- Chapter 6. The Question—Uses and Misuses
- Chapter 7. How to Present Information Effectively
- Chapter 8. How to Get and Maintain Enthusiastic Involvement
- Chapter 9. How to Control and Conclude a Meeting
- Chapter 10. How to Conduct a Productive Training Meeting
- Chapter 11. How to Conduct a Problem-Solving Meeting
- Chapter 12. How to Evaluate and Improve a Meeting
- Posttest
- Answers to Pretest and Posttest
- A Final Word
- Appendix A. Practical Tips from Experienced Meeting Leaders
- Appendix B. After the Meeting, what Then?
- Appendix C. How to Contribute as a Participant
- Appendix D. Do's and Don'ts for Conducting Meetings
- Appendix E. Murphy's Law at Meetings
- References
- About the Author
- Index
- Back Cover
Product information
- Title: How to Conduct Productive Meetings
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2006
- Publisher(s): Association for Talent Development
- ISBN: 9781562864538
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