Meetings Skills for Leaders (Formerly Effective meeting Skills) is your essential guide worhtwhile. A Meeting that is poorly planned, drifts off subject, and suffers from lack of participation from attendees is clearly a waste of everybody's time. This book helps you organize better meetings by taking you step-by-step through the planning process. First identify the overall purpose of your meeting is it to provide information or to make decisions? Then you can get down to the specifics: Whom will you invite? What are the objectives? What type of room setup is best? Who will lead the discussion? This book provides a wealth of information and advice on these topics and much more. Whether you are leading or attending a meeting, you can get more out to the discussion and your team can accoumplish everything it sets out to accomplish in this book you'll find a multitude of ideas for making your next meeting the best ever.

Part 1 The Effective Meeting
Part 2 Facilities and Equipment
Part 3 Conducting Meetings
Part 4 Leading Effective Discussions
Part 5 Improving Meetings
Appendix