How to Manage Meetings - (Creating Success) 2nd Edition by Alan Barker (Paperback)

About the Book

Research suggests that meetings engulf as much as 60 percent of the time we spend at work. Despite their necessity and the costs involved, many meetings are organized by individuals with full-time responsibilities and lack formal training and experience. "How to Manage Meetings" provides much-needed guidance on how to get meetings right.

Book Synopsis

Meetings are important business and social activities. However, research suggests that meetings engulf as much as 60 per cent of the time we spend at work. Despite their necessity and the costs involved, many meetings are organized by individuals who have other full-time responsibilities and lack the formal training and experience to ensure their successful planning and execution. How to Manage Meetings provides much-needed guidance on how to get meetings right. Readers should be able to reap the rewards from appropriate preparation, maximizing participation, understanding group dynamics, effective chairing, and how to follow up effectively after a meeting has taken place. This fully revised second edition includes new content on electronic and virtual meetings, a new chapter on improving a group's thinking and additional guidance on how best to prepare for a meeting from the perspective of three key roles: Chair, Administrator and Participant.

Review Quotes

Praise for the previous edition:

"Using this easy-to-read structure, Barker presents a variety of insightful ways to look at problems and inspire creative thinking." --getAbstract.com

About the Author

Alan Barker is an experienced trainer and coach specializing in communication skills, cognitive skills and creativity. He is Managing Director of training and coaching consultancy Kairos Training and the author of Improve Your Communication Skills, another best selling title in the Creating Success series, published by Kogan Page.