Managing meetings

Meetings frequently dominate the working lives of leaders and their teams. How they are managed plays a key role in the development of an organisation’s culture.

Frequency – the fewer the better!

Key participants – all staff.

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Objective

Meetings are the primary way you communicate with your team members and they therefore play a critical role in:

  • communicating strategy and goals;
  • demonstrating principles and values;
  • disseminating information;
  • establishing personal relationships;
  • determining the manner and mode of decision-making.

The effective leader understands that meetings are always about more than the subject of the meeting itself.

Plan your approach to all meetings for both the immediate ...

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