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How to Conduct a Business Meeting
By: Audrianna Glasper
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• Send out an memo, to person needed to attend meeting
• Call the meeting to order
• Determine who is likely to be assigned tasks from the meeting
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• Have an agenda for every meeting
• Respect the schedules of your meeting participants
• Strive to keep the meeting on subject and on task
• Ask a secretary or other meeting participant to take minutes at every business meeting
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• Meetings shouldn't run too long; 30 minutes or shorter is a good length
• Discussion guidelines can help keep meetings running in an orderly manner
• Do not allow time to get away from you, or you risk losing the attention of your participants.
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• Establish some sort of parliamentary procedure to run the meetings by.
• Be sure everyone who participates in the meeting is aware of said procedure
• Ask each person to limit her point to two minutes or less
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• Encourage the meeting participants to add feedback and input
• Agenda should be only discussion and other sidetracking items will be reserved for another time
• Prohibit meeting participants from • Insulting• talking over• talking loudly• belittling • raising his/her voice • to other members at the meeting
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• Leave time at the end of the meeting for a short question and answer session
• Suggest and agreeing on time, date and place for the next meeting
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• Give out any assignments or instructions before closing, and end on time
• Summarize the meeting and all points of interest as you wrap to keep it all in everyone’s focus
• Be sure to thank everyone for their attendance and participation
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Works Cited• http://smallbusiness.chron.com/conduct-effective-team-meetings-3161.html• http://smallbusiness.chron.com/importance-ethical-conduct-business-25163.html• http://www.wikihow.com/Conduct-Effective-Meetings• http://www.ehow.com/how_2046766_conduct-effective-meeting.html• http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/leadmet.html• http://www.jobjasoos.com/blog/conduct-effective-meetings-tips/• http://timemanagementninja.com/2012/01/10-bad-meeting-behaviors-to-avoid/• http://www.buffalo.edu/ubit/service-guides/conference/virtual-conference.html• http://the-od-people.com/effective-meetings.html