Successful Meetings: How to Plan,
Prepare, and Execute Top-Notch
Business Meetings by Shri L. Henkel
A Great Guide To Great Meetings
A study by MCI found that most professionals believe that over 50 percent
of meeting time is wasted. More than 90 percent admit to daydreaming in
meetings, 73 percent have brought other work, and 39 percent have fallen
asleep. You might think that there would be fewer meetings. However, in
the survey 46 percent said they attended more meetings than a year ago.
Meetings cost time and money. Many meetings end with no results or
outcome. How can you be sure you are using your time and money
effectively? The answer: with proper training. Even MBA graduates have
never had a course in how to plan, organize, and present an effective
meeting. That is the subject of this new book which will teach the proper
skills and training to get great results with every meeting, every time! You
will learn the checklists for planning your meeting, setting the agenda,
strategic planning, how the physical setting can be improved, how to

properly open a meeting, handling difficult people and maintaining control,
how to assess and evaluate your meetings, and the correct method to end
a meeting. Good meetings don t just happen, they are planned and
created.
Personal Review: Successful Meetings: How to Plan, Prepare,
and Execute Top-Notch Business Meetings by Shri L. Henkel
Meetings have to rank as one of the most loathed activities in modern
corporate life. While the idea of coming together as a group to collectively
solve problems or brainstorm new ideas sounds good, poor planning and
management too often leads to fuzzy, disorganized sessions in stuffy
conference rooms. In surveys, 90% of respondents admit to daydreaming
during meetings, almost 75% say they have sometimes brought other
work, and 9% say they have fallen asleep.
Shri Henkel believes she knows how to change all that. Her book,
Successful Meetings: How to Plan, Prepare and Execute Top-Notch
Business Meetings, is a great step-by-step guide running meetings that
produce results. Rather than begin from the premise that all meetings are
necessary, Henkel starts out by suggesting that the reader ask themselves
a very basic question: is this meeting really necessary? Could these issues
be tackled in a different way? She even suggests costing the meeting out,
so the reader can see how much money a meeting will consume in staff
salary, equipment costs, and of course, snacks.
Once you've determined that a meeting is necessary, Henkel has a wide
variety of ideas on how to set agendas and keep to it, how to encourage
active participation among staff, how to capture ideas for later use, and
how to receive feedback so the next meeting is even better. An entire
chapter is devoted to feel-good "team building" exercises designed to open
up communications and get the thoughts flowing. All in all, this would be a
great book for any middle or upper-level manager looking to run their
meetings more effectively.
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