Manage Your Meetings

“A meeting is an interaction where the unwilling, selected from the uninformed, led by the unsuitable, to discuss the unnecessary, are required to write a report on the unimportant.”

—T.A. Kayser

In This Chapter

  • Why should we have meetings?
  • Preparation for meetings is key.
  • Best practices for planning, chairing, and participating.
  • Make your meetings better.
  • How to run remote meetings.

When thinking of meetings in the workplace, most people don’t have great memories. Most of us are too familiar with tedious, unfocused, time-wasting, energy-sapping gatherings. We wade through monotonous minutiae, dealing with issues on ...

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