Synopsis

A best-seller in its first edition, Making Meetings Work Even Better: Achieving High Quality Group Decisions, Second Edition covers everything you need to know about organizing engaging meetings, including preparing agendas, controlling what happens behind the scenes prior to and after meetings, and managing conflicting values and personalities. Through the Meeting Masters Research Project at the University of Michigan, author John E. Tropman observed and interviewed the nation's most successful meeting experts to find out how to make meetings both stimulating and productive. Based on his findings, Tropman formulated seven principles and fourteen commandments for implementing dynamic meetings.

Booknews

Offers strategies for planning and conducting meetings, focusing on what sets a "good" meeting apart from a "bad" one. Presents seven principles and 14 commandments for managing meetings, and details techniques for creating agendas, managing public meetings, dealing with conflicts and emotional issues, and assigning roles. Discusses implementing TQM meetings, and looks at the negative culture of meetings and how to change it. Includes a sample agenda, minutes, and report, and a sample evaluation form. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Biography

John Tropman teaches at the University of Michigan in the School of Social Work, the Michigan Business School and in the Honors College. In Social Work his courses focus on Executive Leadership and Policy Development, while in the School of Business they focus on Organizational Design, Organizational Culture, Rewards Systems, and Organizational Change. He also teaches in the Executive Education Programs at Michigan and Carnegie Mellon Universities. He has written over 20 books and many articles. John works with a number of organizations in a consultative capacity, including for profit, nonprofit and governmental entities. He assists them in strategic planning, developing effective decision systems, managing change, and providing executive training. He also works with individual executives asisting them in their own career development.