The Management Guide to Running Meetings: The Pocket Manager (Management Guides – Oval Books)

A book for people who would like to manage themselves, their time, and their business better, but are too busy to begin.

This guide to Running Meetings shows what meetings involve and what needs to be done to make meetings successful and productive.
When you have read this book: you will be aware of the effect of group dynamics; will know how to exert control and get results; will be confident that any meetings you run will achieve their purpose.

Kate Keenan is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist with degrees in affiliated subjects (B.Sc., M.Phil.) and a number of qualifications in others.

She founded Keenan Research, an industrial psychology consultancy, in 1978. The work of the consultancy is fundamentally concerned with helping people to achieve their potential and make a better job of their management.

By devising work programmes for companies she enables them to target and remedy their managerial problems – from personnel selection and individual assessment to team building and attitude surveys. She believes in giving priority to training the managers to institute their own programmes, so that their company resources are developed and expanded.

She enjoys attending meetings but confesses to a certain degree of trepidation when running them. She finds that by forcing herself to focus on the pertinent issues, the meetings have a better than average rate of covering all the ground and finishing on time.