CHAPTER 11

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Three Steps to Meeting Effectiveness

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

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Leaders carry a special responsibility when it comes to meetings. Because they have formal organizational power, what they do or don’t do in a meeting has a commanding influence on the meeting’s outcome.

Here are three tips for leaders to keep in mind when leading meetings using the Meeting Canoe approach:

1. Use your power wisely. Eric Lindblad (chapter 1) used his formal organizational ...

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