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Tips For Overcoming Problems at Meetings

As a manager, you are often required to chair meetings. To be successful, you will need to minimise your own involvement, foster interaction among the participants, and ensure that everyone makes a contribution. There are times, however, when awkward situations arise; and then you will need to draw on a repertoire of responses to maintain control. Here are some of the most common problems that arise in meetings and the strategies for handling them… 1. When the discussion becomes irrelevant… Meetings sometimes get bogged down in time-consuming, irrelevant discussions that lead nowhere. To get the meeting back on course, you can: refocus the discussion by indicating that the group has strayed from its real objective. summarise the discussion to date and link progress to the objective. bring the discussion back into line by posing a question relating to the agenda topic. 2. When the participants begin to lose interest… Often caused by [...]

A Guide to Using Diaries and Calenders Effectively

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Every manager should use a time planner… a diary, a day book, an appointment calendar, a daily organiser – call it what you will. Although effective time-management primarily depends on personal discipline and willpower, time planners can help you win that daily battle with time. Here are a few guidelines to get you thinking about how to make best use of those essential management tools – diaries and calendars… 1. Know what a diary should be. Pocket or desk diaries and calendars are the traditional ‘appointment books’ – but they ought to be used for more than recording appointments. They require enough space to list one day’s appointments and, on the same page opening, enough room to comment on the planning or recording of the day’s work: telephone calls, reminders, meeting notes, goals, ideas, lists, events. Your diary should become a written record of events, thoughts, and plans – a book [...]