Overview
Antony Jay sets out the misconceptions and problems with meeting and why running effective meetings is critical to the leadership and management of teams. Many attendees of meetings associate them with boredom, frustration and a general waste of valuable time. However we all know we can't manage without meetings. Efficient, effective and productive meetings allow a team to discuss issues, problems and opportunities and come to decisions. Easier said than done. Running a meeting is a key test of a manager-s ability to manage and it becomes more critical the higher up an organisation's structure you go. Good meetings send people away with sense of purpose and a feeling that they have got somewhere. Bad meetings leave them de-motivated, irritated and alienated. And the depressing news: people who run meetings badly don-t improve with experience. Even worse, people who attend their meetings pick up their bad h------------------------------------------------------------
