Positive and productive outcomes are the key objectives of any meeting. Yet many people say that a large proportion of the meetings they attend are futile and achieve little if anything at all. However running meetings productively and efficiently is a relatively straightforward process. All it needs are the appropriate skills and attitudes to make meetings work.This book shows what meetings involve and what needs to be done to produce these positive results. It shows you how to run meetings, even if you have never run one before, and helps you to get the best out of them. It offers simple, effective ways of making certain that any meetings you run will be considered worthwhile by those who attend them.'Meetings are an integral part of managing, but it is important to bear in mind that to have results, they need to be well run, and to run them well, you need to know what needs to be done and have confidence in doing it.'