Best Meeting Management Book
By BillF onI have taught classes on Meeting Management and researched numerous sources and found How to Make Meetings Work my favorite coverage on this subject. Doyle & Strauss cover a meeting purpose, ground rules,types of meetings, agenda, roles, including like leader, scribe, and facilitator. It covers the planning, conduct, and closure phases of a meeting.It also covers and concept I have not seen covered by any other authors what the authors call the " two headed monster" of the leader also trying to be meeting facilitator and the conflict between the decisions and the meeting process.It is a easy to read book with common sense concepts and approaches and does a real good job of covering vast majority of the topic. It suggest starting on time and ending on time or early with the purpose to be a efficent and effective meeting by involving the partisipants in active roles and by clearly planning, facilitaing, and prioritizing.

This sounds really good. I think I'll try to look for this. I"ve currently managed to get out of leadership roles in my clubs, but who knows!