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Guide to Meetings (Guide to Business Communication Series)
Mary Munter, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College
Michael Netzley, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota

ISBN-10: 0130338567
ISBN-13: 9780130338563

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2002
Format: Paper; 93 pp
Published: 06/01/2001

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Can be used in any course in which students meet or study in groups or work teams—or learn how to run professional meetings. For Organizational Behavior, Management, Strategy, or Marketing courses, or undergraduate Business Communication courses, MBA Management Communication courses, or executive seminars.

  • Can be used in any course in which students work in groups—or learn how to run professional meetings.
  • Concise and easy to read.
  • Full of clear, practical useable tools and techniques.
  • Up-to-date, cutting-edge concepts.
  • Great reference guide to keep of both students' and professionals' desks.

I. PLANNING THE MEETING.

1. Why Meet?

Define Your Purpose and Choose Your Channel.

2. Who to Include?

Select and Analyze the Participants.

3. What to Discuss?

Orchestrate the Roles and Set the Agenda.

4. How to Record Ideas?

Plan for Graphic Facilitation.

5. Where to Meet?

Plan for Technology and Logistics.

II. CONDUCTING THE MEETING.

6. Opening the Meeting.

Task and Process Functions for Opening the Meeting.

7. Verbal Facilitation.

Getting Them to Talk and Avoiding Facilitation Problems.

8. Listening Facilitation.

Hearing What They Say (Mentally and Nonverbally).

9. Graphical Facilitation.

Recording What They Say.

10. Closing the Meeting.

Making Decisions, Ending the Meeting, and Following Up.

This concise, practical book is written for you if you want to assure your meetings will be...

  • Necessary and not just a waste of time
  • Interesting, coherent, and well-organized
  • A place for people to share, rather than show off, their ideas
  • Constructive, thoughtful, and creative
  • Inclusive, with full participation from all
  • Efficient and not a waste of energy
In today's environment, meetings are more commonplace and important than ever, because of...
  • Advances in technology—such as videoconferencing and conference calls
  • Increased reliance on collaborative workgroups and cross-functional work teams
  • Increased specialization, which necessitates sharing diverse knowledge and expertise
Like all books in the Prentice Hall Guides to Advanced Business Communication series, this book is...
  • Brief: summarizes key ideas only
  • Practical: offers clear, straightforward tools you can use
  • Reader-friendly: provides easy-to-skim format
Reviews of the core concepts book for this series, Guide to Managerial Communication by Mary Munter
  • —Listed by the Wall Street Journal as one of the five business "books you shouldn't miss."
  • —"Really a gem." Former managing editor, Harvard Business Review
  • —"Short, compact, practical, and readable... I liked it immensely." Journal of Business Communication

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