Effective Meetings - Get Out of Jail!

Manager Tools

Mike Auzenne

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🗓️ 1 August 2005

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

How to do you feel about most of the meetings you attend? Are they productive, or generally considered a waste of time? Do you attend too many meetings? How do others value the meetings *you* run? If you are like most managers we know, your experience in running and participating in meetings is less than ideal.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Manager Tools Podcast for Monday, August 1st, 2005. Hi this is Michael O'sian. Welcome to today's show.
0:23.1	For those of you long time listeners, we're on our seventh show by now,
0:27.8	you know that Manager Tools is a podcast focus on providing you specific tools
0:31.5	for improving your managerial skills and thereby
0:34.6	improving your organization performance.
0:37.0	Now we don't like to talk a lot about theory, but rather on specific behaviors and today's
0:41.0	show is no exception.
0:42.0	Today we're going to start a short two or three-part series on how to improve the effectiveness of meetings.
0:47.0	Before you start, however, we have a number of tools or documents on the website that you might just want to go look at. In addition to
0:55.1	rather detailed outline of what we're going to discuss today, you'll also find a
0:59.6	meeting agenda template that incorporates the topics we're going to discuss on today's show.
1:05.4	Just go to W.W. manager dash tools.com and you can download those tools from the tools section. So without further do, let's get on with it.
1:17.0	Well welcome everybody to manager tools. Today I got a special treat. I have a guest here in these Michael
1:26.7	O'ZAN studios in Burke, Virginia. Like all the welcome Mark Horseman.
1:33.0	Hi guys.
1:34.0	Mark, how you doing?
1:35.0	Good Mike.
1:36.0	We're actually together.
1:38.0	This will be the first, I think the first podcast we did,
1:40.0	we've done with one or both in the same room so it be interesting.
1:44.3	This should be interesting Mark and I will actually be able to look at each other as we're
1:48.1	as we're talking which is gonna be different.
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