How to Conduct Productive Meetings: Strategies, Tips, and Tools to Ensure Your Next Meeting is Well Planned and Effective
- 2h 4m
- Donald L. Kirkpatrick
- Association for Talent Development
- 2006
Meetings are often poorly planned and executed events that produce no meaningful business results. How to Conduct Productive Meetings is a book designed to provide practical tools and advice for anyone planning or facilitating a meeting. Legendary evaluation guru Donald Kirkpatrick offers solid and timely advice to ensure that a meeting is necessary, the presentation is professional and effective, the participants contribute in constructive ways and the outcome is measurable.
Based on more than 40 years of professional experience, Kirkpatrick backs up his meeting methodology with both solid research and experiences from his vast on-the-ground expertise as consultant to Fortune 500 companies including Blockbuster, Caterpillar, Ford, IBM, and General Electric. This book also includes more than 130 "do's" and "don'ts" of meetings that alone are worth the price of the book. In addition to a practical chapter on preparing for and leading meetings, the book provides guidance on how to use questions in meetings, how to conduct a productive training meeting, how to conduct a problem-solving meeting, and how to be an effective participant in a meeting. Pre- and post-tests allow users to examine their baseline knowledge of successful meetings and evaluate lessons learned from reading the book.
About the Author
Donald L. Kirkpatrick is one of the most celebrated workplace learning professionals in the world. His books and articles have influenced and guided the work of at least two generations of training and performance professionals. His seminal work, Evaluating Training Programs: The Four Levels, is used around the world to determine the on-the-job and business impact of training programs. He is an active author, consultant, teacher, and speaker. He is a past national president and a Gordon M. Bliss award winner of the American Society for Training and Development and the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement in Workplace Learning and Performance. He received three degrees from the University of Wisconsin in Madison: a BBA in accounting, an MBA in personnel management, and a PhD in counseling and adult education.
In this Book
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How to Determine When a Meeting is Necessary and Productive
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The Costs and Causes of a Nonproductive Meeting
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How to Coordinate a Meeting
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How to Prepare for a Meeting
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The Role of the Leader
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The Question—Uses and Misuses
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How to Present Information Effectively
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How to Get and Maintain Enthusiastic Involvement
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How to Control and Conclude a Meeting
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How to Conduct a Productive Training Meeting
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How to Conduct a Problem-Solving Meeting
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How to Evaluate and Improve a Meeting
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