Managing Meetings for Business

This book is about Managing Meetings for Business.

Managing Meetings for Business is your ability to gather people together to share information and resolve problems to consistently produce excellent results.

This is the 17th volume in a comprehensive Success Training Program, called SUCCESS MADE SIMPLE, designed to help you achieve the effectiveness and success you deserve.

The first ten volumes (see Other Books) addressed these ten core competencies of your effectiveness and success in business:

Followership, Delegating, Planning, Organizing, Communicating, Problem-Solving, Awareness, Training, Motivating, and Character-Building.

The second ten volumes (see Other Books) provide a more detailed explanation of how to master these ten Critical Success Skills.

Writing, Speaking, Team Building, Managing Risk, Coaching, Managing Projects, Managing Meetings, Achieving Goals, Decision-Making, and Building Consensus.

These books are for you and all those in the workforce, regardless of your occupation, position, or level of authority, who have a burning desire to be, do, and have more than you have today.

This book will give you a far better understanding of Managing Meetings for Business, its definition, importance, and how to do it successfully.

In the business world, meetings are intended to produce clearer focus, assist collaboration, build consensus and trust, reduce rumors and confusion, ensure shared understanding, and most of all - get things done!

As an executive coach for over 20 years, I know what bosses and customers expect of you.

This is where I learned that the most effective people stood out because they used the tactics, techniques, and tools from this book to conduct meetings that produced clearer focus, assisted collaboration, built consensus and trust, reduced rumors and confusion, ensured shared understanding, and most of all - get things done!

This is also where I learned that those who lacked these skills failed to conduct meetings that identified problems, unresolved issues, unintended consequences, and second and third-order effects of their work before starting which caused them to experience the adverse effects of Murphy’s Law. Don’t let this happen to you.

This is why it’s always in your best interest to master the Art of Managing Meetings for Business.

This book will teach you how to conduct a Performance Review, a Decision Briefing, a Backbriefing, a Project Update Meeting, Internal Team Meetings, a Quarterly Progress Briefing, a Document Review, an In-Process Review, a Brainstorming Session, a Rehearsal, and an After-Action Review and how to build consensus with a team.

Today, many face-to-face, sit-down meetings are often unproductive, especially when considering all the advanced communication technology available.

However, meetings can be productive and meaningful, and here is just one of many suggestions from this book.

Simplify your Agenda.

Most meetings I’ve attended failed to get to the heart of the problems needing attention. Here are the most important components:

Past: What are you currently working on, and when do you expect to finish?

Future: What are you planning to accomplish before our next meeting?

Present: What are your Unresolved Issues (any questions, unknowns, concerns, shortfalls, obstacles, or problems that could slow or stop your progress)?

Without good meeting management skills, you’ll never become effective or successful in business, period!

I know that by learning, using, and sharing these best practices and critical success skills, you’ll be well on your way to becoming more effective and successful.

To your SUCCESS!