Running Effective Meetings
How to Plan, Facilitate, and Close Meetings That Get ResultsBy Rikard Halpert
Length1h 48m
About this audiobook
This guide treats meeting facilitation as a learnable craft with techniques, patterns, and failure points. It walks through the complete lifecycle of an effective meeting: the preparatory work that determines whether the gathering will succeed, the opening moments that set tone and direction, the facilitation skills that keep discussion productive, the decision-making processes that convert talk into action, and the follow-through that ensures commitments become reality.
Each chapter builds a discrete skill. Readers learn how to design an agenda that serves a clear purpose, how to create psychological safety for honest exchange, how to navigate disagreement without derailment, how to manage time without becoming tyrannical, and how to close in ways that produce clarity rather than confusion. The book addresses the specific challenges of different meeting types and, perhaps most importantly, teaches the judgment required to recognize when a meeting serves no purpose at all.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 5.0 (1)
GenreBusiness and Economics, Education and Learning
Length1 hr 48 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 22, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title Page
2Chapter 1: What Bad Meetings Cost
3Chapter 2: Before Anyone Arrives
4Chapter 3: The First Five Minutes
5Chapter 4: The Shape of Discussion
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6Chapter 5: Drawing Out the Silent
7Chapter 6: When Someone Disagrees
8Chapter 7: From Talk to Decision
9Chapter 8: The Discipline of Time
10Chapter 9: How to Close
11Chapter 10: The Day After
12Chapter 11: The Quick Sync and the Town Hall
13Chapter 12: The Meeting You Don’t Call
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