How to Conduct Productive Meetings

Donald L. Kirkpatrick

• Publisher: Association for Talent Development
• Year: 2023
• Topic: Business
• eBook ISBN:
  9781607284550
• Subtopic: Human Resource Management
• Index: Business

An essential guide for facilitating productive, decisive meetings. Meetings are well-known time-wasters that often produce no meaningful business results. How to Conduct Productive Meetings enables anyone to plan and facilitate a fruitful, decisive meeting. Assess whether a meeting is actually necessary, ensure presentations are professional, facilitate constructive participation, and produce a meeting outcome that is measurable.

Table of contents

• How to Conduct Productive Meetings
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Pretest
• Chapter 1: How to Determine When a Meeting is Necessary and Productive
• Chapter 2: The Costs and Causes of a Nonpruductive Meeting
• Chapter 3: How to Coordinate a Meeting
• Chapter 4: How to Prepare for a Meeting
• Chapter 5: The Role of the Leader
• Chapter 6: The Question - Uses and Misuses
• Chapter 7: How to Present Information Effectively
• Chapter 8: How to Get and Maintain Enthusiastic Involvement
• Chapter 9: How to Control and Conclude a Meeting
• Chapter 10: How to Conduct a Productive Training Meeting
• Chapter 11: How to Conduct a Problem-Solving Meeting
• Chapter 12: How to Evaluate and Improve a Meeting
• Posttest
• Answers to Pretest and Posttest
• Afterword
• Appendix A: Practical Tips from Experienced Meeting Leaders
• Appendix B: After the Meeting, What Then?
• Appendix C: How to Contribute as a Participant
• Appendix D: Do's and Don'ts for Conducting Meetings
• Appendix E: Murphy's Law at Meetings
• References
• About the Author
• Index
• About the American Society for Training and Development