Shri Henkel - Successful Meetings: How to Plan, Prepare, and Execute Top-Notch Business Meetings

Successful Meetings

How to Plan, Prepare, and Execute Top-Notch Business Meetings

Shri Henkel

Successful Meetings: How to Plan, Prepare, and Execute Top-Notch Business Meeting

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ISBN-13: 978-0-910627-91-7

ISBN-10: 0-910627-91-6

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Henkel, Shri L., 1965

Successful meetings : how to plan, prepare, and execute top-notch business meetings /

by Shri L. Henkel.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN-13: 978-0-910627-91-7 (alk. paper)

ISBN-10: 0-910627-91-6 (alk. paper)

1. Business meetings. 2. Business meetings--Planning. I. Title.

HF5734.5.H46 2007

658.456--dc22

2006035300

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to all managers and other employees or members who are facing their first meeting. It is also dedicated to the meeting leaders who want to make a difference in the meetings they conduct.

I hope the information within these pages help you conduct effective and successful meetings that will enlighten and help your employees or group members.

Finally, this book is dedicated to my grandfather, John Henkel, who showed me the value of working hard for my employers and the importance of giving superior customer service to bring the customers back. And to my grandmother, Hannah Gum, who works hard and showed me what a woman can accomplish. I wouldnt have accomplished as much without their great examples.

Foreword

The minute someone says to me, We need to have a meeting, I tend to hear a high-pitched whine of resistance (sounds sort of like, Oh, nooooooooooooo!), and I start looking for the door rather than my planner. People grow to hate meetings.

Have you ever shown up promptly for a meeting, only to have two or three people straggle in late while the person in charge of the meeting shuffles through a briefcase, looks through notes at the last minute, rearranges chairs and coffee mugs, and wastes time waiting for absolutely every invitee to arrive before convening the meeting? Have you ever been a participant in a team presentation during an hour-long meeting when the presenter ahead of you exceeds his five minutes allotted on the agenda and is only halfway through his presentation at ten minutes and counting? Have you ever listened as one windbag monopolizes 20 minutes of an hour-long meeting with her personal vision on a topic that should only have taken two minutes of the agenda? Have you ever attended a one-hour meeting that wound up being a two- or (you know it!) three-hour meeting? Have you ever shown up at a meeting where there was no agenda so that the topics that needed to be addressed never were covered?

Ive worked in the professional world for longer than I care to say and have been to and organized more meetings than I can count. Some were great, the majority needed a lot of improvement, and a few were downright mind-numbingly dull or abysmally disorganized. Ive been a member of Toastmasters for more than 14 years, and our worldwide organization insists on members learning how to begin and end meetings on time and how to plan meetings from start to finish. Effective use of time shows respect for our fellow human beings.

Fortunately, Shri Henkel can show you the way to have successful meetings. Shris book is one I am proud to have on my library shelf and one that Ill continue to recommend to all business associates as well as my fellow Toastmasters. Read on, and no more whining!

June A. Van Valkenburg

OwnerVisibilities 360, LLC

www.visibilities360.com

Toastmaster Experience

Distinguished Toastmaster Estrella Toastmasters, Goodyear, Arizona

Toastmasters Experience President three times, Vice President of Education four times, Vice President of Public Relations two times, Vice President Secretary/Treasurer two times, Vice President of Membership one time. Also worked with District leadership serving as Area Governor for two terms (an Area consists of four to six clubs)

Club Coach Committee Chair for Toastmasters International District Three (which consists of 176 clubs in Arizona)

Business Experience

Aerospace Policies and Procedures - Administrative Support