Making Meetings Work Achieving High Quality Group Decisions [Paperback]

A best-seller in its first edition, Making Meetings Work Even Better: Achieving High Quality Group Decisions, Second Edition covers everything you need to know about organizing engaging meetings, including preparing agendas, controlling what happens behind the scenes prior to and after meetings, and managing conflicting values and personalities. Through the Meeting Masters Research Project at the University of Michigan, author John E. Tropman observed and interviewed the nation's most successful meeting experts to find out how to make meetings both stimulating and productive. Based on his findings, Tropman formulated seven principles and fourteen commandments for implementing dynamic meetings.

A best-seller in its first edition, Making Meetings Work Even Better: Achieving High Quality Group Decisions, Second Edition covers everything you need to know about organizing engaging meetings, including preparing agendas, controlling what happens behind the scenes prior to and after meetings, and managing conflicting values and personalities. Through the Meeting Masters Research Project at the University of Michigan, author John E. Tropman observed and interviewed the nation's most successful meeting experts to find out how to make meetings both stimulating and productive. Based on his findings, Tropman formulated seven principles and fourteen commandments for implementing dynamic meetings.

Introduction
Part 1 Paradigm Shift
1 Principle Driven: the Seven Imperatives
Part 2 Managing Agenda Organization
2 Managing Agenda Organization
3 Managing Agenda Dieting: The Rule of the Agenda Bell
4 Managing Meeting Text: The Written Rules
5 Managing Participant Trust: The Integrity Rules
6 Managing Premeeting and Postmeeting Tasks
7 Managing Rehearsals, PerformanlÃ*