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Master Your Game: Designing an Effective Meeting Agenda
An agenda planning session should occur prior to every meeting. Just as an architect wouldn't dream of showing up at a construction site without a well-thought out design, facilitators need to create their own blueprints for each session. Meetings can be a waste of time and energy if no one is prepared and participants are forced to make decisions without adequate information. Last month, we discussed meeting management styles. This month, we discuss the effective agenda. Use The Agenda As A Strategic Tool

Master Your Game: Group Decision-Making Processes
You've outlined a tight agenda and designed an effective meeting process. The next step is to move discussion forward through efficient and effective decision-making. This article explains six decision rules and their appropriate uses.

Master Your Game: Meeting Process Design
After establishing and communicating the agenda to participants (see previous issues), the second step to conducting an effective meeting is designing the meeting process.* Designing the process means considering the meeting objectives, the scope of the topic, the discussion stage for each topic and the available time. Specifically, this article discusses strategies for managing the group size, thinking activities and discussion time.

Managing Emotional Hot Buttons in Meetings
Preparation and planning for facilitation of an effective meeting is the first step. You can find resources to guide this process in Masterful Meetings a series of articles written in 2005 on my website under Newsletters.

Running Effective & Actionable Meetings
When properly planned and executed, meetings can efficiently communicate ideas, solve problems, and generate action items. Unfortunately, many managers waste time by holding unnecessary or ineffective meetings. Read this summary to learn how to run an effective meeting, and use Demand Metric’s Meeting Agenda Template and Meeting Minutes Template to standardize your meeting process.
5 Ways to Improve Communication in Meetings
As we all know, communciation in meetings can get out of hand. These easy tips can help your meeting to stay focused on what is important without the meeting getting sidetracked.
Getting The Right Team In Place
One of the biggest challenges many of my clients face is having the right people. Prior to coaching I'd often hear: "If only I could find the right people my business would much more profitable." "I'd have less stress." "I spend more time managing my people than getting the work done and more."

How To Have A Highly Productive Team
Before you start complaining that your team are causing you headaches and not performing the way you want, take a look at yourself first. Gary who runs a plumbing business has 5 staff. He was always complaining that they were lazy, didn't use their initiative and would take advantage of him. We had Gary fill in our 'Productivity and Leadership Profile'. This process allows each team member to anonymously answer questions about how they see Gary in many areas including his leadership abilities, communication, organisation, etc. The process also allows Gary to answer the same questions on how he sees himself.

How to Run an Effective Meeting
Learn how to operate a more effective and productive meeting.

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Important Structures For a Successful Meeting
Successful meetings use structure. Procedures and structure help groups perform significantly better in meetings. Meeting structures are the solid foundation upon which effective meetings are built. Below is a list of some of the important structures that make a successful meeting:
Master Your Game: Meeting Process Design
After establishing and communicating the agenda to participants (see previous issues), the second step to conducting an effective meeting is designing the meeting process.* Designing the process means considering the meeting objectives, the scope of the topic, the discussion stage for each topic and the available time. Specifically, this article discusses strategies for managing the group size, thinking activities and discussion time.

Master Your Game: Group Decision-Making Processes
You've outlined a tight agenda and designed an effective meeting process. The next step is to move discussion forward through efficient and effective decision-making. This article explains six decision rules and their appropriate uses.

New Ways to Meet - Strategies For Virtual Teams and Alternatives to Face-To-Face Meetings
There is no doubt about it - meetings take up a good amount of our time on a weekly basis. Think back for a minute on all the time you spent in meetings this past year - whether they were one-on-one meetings or a group meeting in a conference room. WOW, that's a lot of time spent meeting! Was it all necessary? And how much time was spent traveling to and from those meetings? Would some of them have been just as effective without everyone in the same physical place?
Top Five Tips For Running Productive & Effective Meetings
Have you ever been in a meeting where there is an agenda but it's not followed? Or, where you discuss the same issue repeatedly, with no resolution? If you answered yes, you are in the majority. Throughout my career, I have sat through hundreds of meetings that were unproductive and a waste of time. However, with proper planning and execution, you can host a well-run meeting. The following article provides some tips to develop and run effective meetings.
Effective Steps to Become a Leader
Becoming a leader is difficult in itself. Hence, becoming an effective leader is a hurdling task. Aside from meeting up that qualification, there are other factors that must be considered to achieve productive results when leading a team. An effective leader is one that is able to analyze the situation at hand. Good leaders know when their leadership is required and when it is not.

Accelerate The Quality of Every Meeting -The Easy Way
Courageous Participation Pays Off - For Everyone. Each team member accepts 100% responsibility for the result of each meeting. The success of the meeting depends on time spent - 50% prior planning, 15% conducting the meeting, and 35% participants' follow-up.
Running Effective & Actionable Meetings
When properly planned and executed, meetings can efficiently communicate ideas, solve problems, and generate action items. Unfortunately, many managers waste time by holding unnecessary or ineffective meetings. Read this summary to learn how to run an effective meeting, and use Demand Metric’s Meeting Agenda Template and Meeting Minutes Template to standardize your meeting process.
Sharpen Your Greatest Sales Tool: Bring MORE to Your Sales Meetings
When you hear the term “sales tool,” what comes to mind? CRM, Blackberry, laptop? As you mentally list the tools provided for your sellers, do you include your sales meetings on the list? Think about it: In an effective sales meeting, the time you give, the experience of the team and a focus on sharpening everyone for success can make the meeting one of the greatest sales tools of all!
How to Run an Effective Meeting
Learn how to operate a more effective and productive meeting.
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