Planning and Leading Productive Meetings

Author: Jeffery H. Davis
Testing Format: multiple choice
Your Price: $159.00
ISBN: 9780761215462
Format: Spiral/Comb/Coil Binding

Overview

The new edition of this self-study course focuses on the organizational and interpersonal skills you need to lead really productive meetings. You’ll see how these skills apply across a wide range of meetings, from routine staff gatherings to cross functional or problem-solving meetings, impromptu get-togethers, or more formal information sharing. You’ll learn how to assess the quality of meetings in your own organization, so you can understand their true cost, and realize the benefits of successful meetings in better decision making, broader buy-in, and clearer conflict and problem resolution.

Course Objective:

Planning and Leading Productive Meetings, Second Edition will help managers and leaders at all levels develop successful strategies to run meetings that work ~ at work.

Selected Learning Objective

This course gives substantial attention to the key role of the meeting leader and offers practical guidance on how to develop the proper mind-set, manage the process, and utilize the most appropriate decision-making tools and facilitation skills. It also covers in full detail the dynamic issues of planning, conducting, following up, and evaluating meetings, with special attention paid to group dynamics and the effective use of media tools.

Despite new ways of working and virtual ways of communicating, the traditional meeting continues to dominate the workplace. Revised and updated, Planning and Leading Productive Meetings, Second Edition addresses the meeting challenges of this new work environment and offers both leaders and participants an abundance of tools and techniques to transform their meetings into valuable and productive work.

Testing Format

This course contains one multiple choice test valued at two Continuing Education Units. (CEU)

Table of Contents

About This Course

How to Take This Course

Introduction

Pre-test

1. The Importance of Workplace Meetings 1

2. Preparing to Be the Meeting Leader 23

3. Preparation and Planning Essentials for a Successful Meeting 37

4 Conducting the Meeting 55

5 Decision-Making Tools and Techniques 69

6 Facilitation Skills Every Meeting Leader Needs 89

7 Meeting Follow-up Tools 105

8 Effective Uses of Media Tools in Meetings 121

Recap

Review Questions

Recommended Resources 131

Post-test 133

Index 139