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Essential Meeting Blueprints for Managers

By : Sharlyn Lauby
Book Image

Essential Meeting Blueprints for Managers

By: Sharlyn Lauby

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Summary


The first rule of meetings is to understand why the meeting is being held and what role each person plays towards the meetings success. People will attend meetings when they understand the reason for them. They will participate and engage if they feel they are a part of the agenda.

During the meeting, groups can use problem-solving models such as the Situation-Target-Proposal (STP) and decision-making techniques like consensus building to create relevant and constructive discussions. The concept behind SMART plans can guide conversations and bring a consistent documentation process.

In the next chapter, we'll talk about the most common type of meeting: daily, weekly, and monthly status meetings. This meeting is probably criticized the most and often contains a lot of what we just discussed: problem solving and decision-making. How can we take the dreaded status meeting and turn it into something productive? Let's discuss in Chapter 2, Regularly Scheduled Status Updates.