Welcome to the manager tools podcast for Monday August 8th 2005. Hi, this is Michael O'syan. I'm behalf of Mark and I welcome to Manager Tools. If you're new to Manager Tools, thanks for joining us.

For those of you are new, Manager Tools Podcast is really quite simple.

We simply want to provide manager 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

enjoy them.

That's not what this podcast is about.

Rather, what 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

W. Manager- Tools. might find it very useful to go to the website www dot manager dash tools.

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 dot manager dash tools.com and put these tools to use. So with that let's get on

with the show. Well, welcome back everybody.

Got Mark Horsman 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 that we listed 10 things that we

were recommending that folks do to have effective meetings, pre-publishing an agenda,

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