L9 Meetings Leadership and Productivity

This chapter will help leaders and other meeting planners avoid these seven deadly sins(negative in meeting) and conduct productive meetings by determining when a meeting is the best forum for achieving the required result, establishing objective, outcomes, and agenda: performing essential planning, clarifying roles and establishing ground rule, using common problem solving techniques, managing meeting problem, and ensuring that follow up occurs. And focuses on small group meetings. Leaders will be to stop most of the meeting problem by careful planning and by developing and enforcing ground rules. A facilitator's primary responsibility is to ensure that process problems do not interfere with the success of the meeting. Facilitator help keep the meeting focused on the objective and ensure redirection if it gets off track . Skilled facilitators should be prepared by

1 Handle some of the most common meeting problems

2 Manage meeting conflict

3 Deal with issues arising form cultural differences