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The Project Workout
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The Project Workout

by Robert Buttrick
August 2018
Beginner
580 pages
13h 11m
English
Routledge
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Appendix D: Good meetings

Meetings take up a considerable amount of time, drawing on people, often from a number of different organizations. Ensuring time is spent wisely and all the right people are engaged is a challenge anyone who calls a meeting must face. To help with this, I have produced a set of checklists to help your meetings run efficiently and effectively.

Before the meeting

The person calling the meeting should:

  • decide who will chair the meetings;
  • fix the objective, venue, date, time, and attendance well in advance; keep numbers to a minimum;
  • ensure all required parties are invited and have authority/knowledge to take decisions and/or make a valid contribution;
  • set accountability and time limits for each agenda item, taking into ...
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