The typical meeting consumes time that should be spent productively, and tends to drain the energy, enthusiasm, and motivation from the attendees. For all this cost, the typical meeting accomplishes little or nothing--and that's on a good day!

For most people, the phrase "mindless meetings" is redundant. Yet, in some organizations, meetings are productive. Those meetings build energy, increase enthusiasm, and motivate attendees to higher levels of performance.

In this course, you will learn how to have this second kind of meeting. To get these kinds of results, you don’t need to do magic tricks, tell jokes, or "wow" people. We’ll show you what you need to do and how to do it.

Among the things you’ll learn are how to:

• Hold a meeting, rather than a mental beating
• Start and end meetings on time
• Avoid stretching a 20-minute meeting to 4 hours
• Make short meetings count
• Establish a clear purpose for each meeting, and achieve that purpose
• Stay focused and on track
• Be twice as productive in half the time
• Ensure attendance by the right people--no more, no less
• Handle people who derail meeting agendas, so they become allies instead of irritations
• Chair a meeting effectively
• Improve a meeting that someone else chairs
• Get out of meetings you don’t want to attend

This course includes checklists you can apply right away!  Why not have meetings you--and every other attendee--can look forward to?

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 Approximate study time: 19 hours 

Ten reasons to buy this course and know this material:

10. Most meetings are a complete waste of time--your time is valuable. So is the time of other attendees.
9.   Being able to manage meetings properly reduces stress and improves productivity.
8.   Having this knowledge allows you to focus on what is most important to you, rather than wasting away in pointless meetings.
7.   This course takes less time than the typical meeting.
6.   This course focuses on what you really need to know, in a way you can understand.
5.   Meetings drain you; proper meeting management enriches your career.
4.   This knowledge helps you make the right decisions about your meetings.
3.   The right approach to meeting management saves time and energy, while reducing or eliminating the need to throttle the person who is making a given meeting drag on and on and on.
2.   By taking this course, you gain insight into specifics of managing meetings in a way that makes sense.

and the number one reason to buy this course and learn this material...

1.   You owe it to yourself to know this information. Why limit yourself to being captive to unproductive, boring meetings, when this knowledge can set you free?

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