Making Meetings Happen: A simple and effective guide to implementing successful meetings

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Discover the personal and professional benefits of meetings in this practical and concise guidebook. Is there any business process quite so potentially energy-depleting or time-sapping to you and your talented team members as unproductive meetings This text aims to change all that. In reader-friendly language, this precise and practical guidebook: explains how meetings, when carried out effectively, can boost the productivity of your work unit; describes how and why productive meetings work and how you can pass these principles and processes on to your colleagues; shows you how to follow through with these processes, thus ensuring that decisions made and actions implemented generate the productivity gains you and your team need; and provides you with all the tools - activities, checklists, action strategies, sample documents - you will need to lead your team into a more effective way of conducting business meetings. The book is not just about learning theory - it is about applying strategies, and following them through. By providing the practical tools to quickly and easily implement positive change in your work unit, the book should help you to boost your career. All the books in the series provide you with the inspiration, ideas and tools to generate positive change. They are written with a practical focus so that you can learn about the theory, and the advantages and pitfalls of the subject matter in order to create and implement a strategy that is right for your workplace.

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The author, Professor Robert Burns, has a wealth of experience in designing and implementing training courses and workshops on developing and enhancing personal growth and life skills. He has published many successful books in the areas of psychology, stress management, adult learning, career guidance and business skills.