How to Make Meetings Work!

I attended a three day seminar based on this book on how to make meetings constructive and effective. This book distills all the advice of that seminar. It describes different types of meetings, reasons to hold meetings, why many meetings are unnecessary, etc. I was able to put into practice the concepts when I was a manager, as a volunteer on many committees and boards, and as a department head at a school. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is responsible for calling, chairing, and attending meetings.

I bought this book for a college class, but it really came in handy once I started my job after college -- I used this book to restructure our meetings at work. There was one group who seemed to always meet for far too long, talk the whole time, and still get nowhere. It was not a panacea, but it was exceedingly helpful with positive feedback from many of the group members. This book from the 70s is still very relevant today and I would highly recommend it.

Classic easy to read and follow guide for planning as well as executing requirements workshops, JADs and even scrums. Explains the importance and separation of duties and skills for the facilitator and recorder and engaging participants and participant selection.

this is a great cook book on how to run effective problem solving meetings. It really breaks it down well

This book was referenced in one of our Teaming Handbooks at work and it has been more than helpful in helping to train our team facilitators. Very worthwhile!!

With more than 5 years of successful leadership experience when it comes to running meetings, my fellow board-members and I were advised to read this in order to improve our meeting efficiency and team work skills. This was a complete waste of time. The only helpful tips in this book were to have a set a agenda before each meeting send out to all group members and to have the group create 1 list of public notes for the entire group without any names listed. Everything else suggested brought down meeting efficiency.

Not only introduced a win/win mode meeting, It also give many details to tell us how to manage the skill and where the traps lied. In a word, it's the best of this type I ever read.

Recommended during a training I went to. Great resource!