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The Manager's Pocket Guide to Leadership Skills
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The Manager's Pocket Guide to Leadership Skills

by Peter B. Stark, Jane Flaherty
January 1999
Beginner
200 pages
4h 3m
English
HRD Press
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Planning a Productive Meeting

Step One: Creating the Agenda

After determining whether a meeting needs to be held, and if it does, what type, the next step is to begin the planning. Every meeting should have an agenda. An agenda sends participants the message that their time is valued enough to do prior planning. It also lets participants know ahead of time what they will be doing during the meeting. Participants then have an opportunity to prepare themselves for the meeting. They can make sure that they have all the data needed to make an informed contribution to the meeting. (To help you plan and conduct a productive meeting, a checklist is provided at the end of this chapter.)

An agenda should include the following:

1.  Start time. Establish ...

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