Leadership communication. Summary chapter 7

Leadership Communication
Summary Chapter 7
Leading productive management meetings


Chapter 7 provides very useful and practical information on how to conduct effective management meetings. Five elements of successful meetings are:

· Deciding when a meeting is a best forum
· Planning
· Conducting a productive meeting
· Managing conflict
· Ensuring meeting leads to action

From my own experience, the average worker avoids meetings mostly because they are considered a waste of time. Meeting leaders rarely observe all the five steps shown above. I attribute the most common cause for “meeting failure” to a lack of discipline regarding the meeting objectives. Punctuality and time limits are usually not observed, distractions are allowed into the agenda, and outcomes are not clear or not enforced.

Observance of the methods recommended by the authors will improve the chances of holding productive and interesting meetings.