Marvellous Meetings: A Facilitator's Guide

You can always tell how an organization works, just by looking at its meetings. How often do people meet and for how long? What do they discuss? What happens as a result of the meeting? Do they use an agenda and does the meeting have any kind of internal structure?Meetings may be a fundamental part of the teamworking process, but sadly they are a part which, in most organizations, need some serious attention.Christine Newton's Marvellous Meetings offers you the opportunity to focus on your meetings and those who attend them. This resource doesn't try to reinvent the wheel or to add to the mass of input and theory about meetings. Instead, it offers a series of job aids, information sheets, work sheets, questionnaires, activity and discussion cards along with a series of intervention strategies on how to combine them to:- Audit meeting skills;- Offer feedback on personal performance;- Improve the process of meetings;- Team build;- Improve your documentation;- Develop the skills of chair and participantsand much more.This action learning style resource allows you to intervene at a moment's notice and uses simple techniques and ideas to help your people work out how and when to run their meetings to accomplish more.Most people within organizations know how meetings should be run and how they should behave. They just don't do it. This resource will help you to encourage and motivate them to turn good practice into common practice.Christine Newton is the author of 'Marvellous Meetings: A Facilitator's Guide' with ISBN 9780566084232 and ISBN 0566084236.