Meetings are often poorly planned and executed events that produce no meaningful business results. ""How to Conduct Productive Meetings"" is a book designed to provide practical tools and advice for anyone planning or facilitating a meeting. Legendary evaluation guru Donald Kirkpatrick offers solid and timely advice to ensure that a meeting is necessary, the presentation is professional and effective, the participants contribute in constructive ways, and the outcome is measurable. Based on more than 40 years of professional experience, Kirkpatrick backs up his meeting methodology with both solid research and experiences from his vast on-the-ground expertise as consultant to Fortune 500 companies including Blockbuster, Caterpillar, Ford, IBM, and General Electric. The book also includes more than 130 ""do's"" and ""don'ts"" of meetings that alone are worth the price of the book. In addition to practical chapters on preparing for and leading meetings, the book provides guidance on how to use questions in meetings, how to conduct a productive training meeting, how to conduct a problem-solving meeting, and how to be an effective participant in a meeting. Pre- and post-tests allow users to examine their baseline knowledge of successful meetings and evaluate lessons learned from reading the book.
Reviews
Based on his many years of experience teaching in the classroom and working with business and industry, the virtuoso of evaluating training programs, Don Kirkpatrick, has once again provided practical and timely advice on conducting productive business meetings. I find that his approach is fresh and comprehensive and focuses on improving productivity when conducting a meeting. Dan Schuch Training Developer PacifiCorp



Book Information
ISBN 9781562864538
Author Donald L. Kirkpatrick
Format Paperback
Page Count 152
Imprint ATD Press
Publisher American Society for Training & Development