Hello everybody, this is Mike. This week we're going to continue our effective meetings hall of fame guidance

Which we started last week as a result of a medical emergency on the team and we'll finish this up next week when we publish part three of effective meetings

Hope you enjoy

Welcome to the manager tools podcast for Monday, August 8th 2005

Hi, this is Mike Losegan. I'm a half a mark and I welcome the manager tools if you need a manager tool. Thanks for joining us

For those of you who are new, manager tools podcast is really quite simple. We simply want to provide managers leaders with specific tools and

Behaviors that you can use every day to improve your management skills and thereby improve your organizational performance

Although there's a lot of very interesting management and leadership theory and believe me, Mark and I really enjoyed them

That's not what this podcast is about. Rather, we'll do effective managers do on a day-to-day basis and how do you do it better?

Today, Mark and I continue our discussions on running effective meetings

This is the second show on the topic. If you haven't heard the first, you might find it very useful to go to the website

www.manager-tools.com and download the previous show. In addition, we have a fairly detailed outline of the show on the site as well as a meeting agenda template

That you might find very useful. So go to www.manager-tools.com and put these tools to use. So with that, let's get on with the show

Well, welcome back everybody got Mark Horseman with me and we're going to cover the second part of our series on

meetings and effective meetings. Yeah, I think last time we talked about why meetings don't work

So there we listed 10 things that we would recommend that folks do to have effective meetings

Pre-publishing an agenda starting on time setting ground rules, which we did cover

We mentioned as one of the one of the 10 items, but we're going to start off and talk about that today

Stick to the agenda using a parking lot fixing responsibilities, finishing on time, publishing minutes, continuously improving and

Selecting a facilitator. Right. We talked about the first five minus ground rules last last podcast if you haven't listened to that

I'd suggest you go back and listen to that

So we're going to start now and get into it and start off with the covering ground rules. Yeah

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