HBR guide to making every meeting matter

CONTENT

Section 1: Prepare
1 Do you really need to hold that meeting?
2 Stop calling every conversation a "meeting"
3 If you can't say what your meeting will accomplish, you shouldn't have it
4 How to design an agenda for an effective meeting
5 The key to shorter, better meetings
6 The 50-minute meeting
7 The magic of 30-minute meetings
8 Meetings need a shot clock
9 Are there too many people in your meeting?

Section 2: Conduct
10 Before a meeting, tell your team that silence denotes agreement
11 Establish ground rules
12 Reach group decisions during meetings
13 The right way to cut people off in meetings
14 Dealing with people who derail meetings
15 Refocus a meeting after someone interrupts

Section 3: Participate
16 Polite ways to decline a meeting invitation
17 How to interject in a meeting
18 Stuck in a meeting from hell?
19 7 ways to stop a meeting from dragging on
20 When your boss is terrible at leading meetings

Section 4: Close and follow up
21 The right way to end a meeting
22 Don't end a meeting without doing these 3 things

Section 5: Specific types of meetings
23 What everyone should know about running virtual meetings
24 How to run a great virtual meeting
25 Conduct a meeting of people from different cultures
26 Making global meetings work
27 Give your standing meetings a makeover
28 How to do walking meetings right
29 Stand-up meetings don't work for everybody
30 Leadership summits that work

Includes references and index