50 Ways to Liven Up Your Meetings
Graham Roberts-Phelps
Gower pounds 45
The price is enough to tell you that this is more a reference book than something to flick through, but managers might benefit from keeping this weighty tome handy. The '50 Ways' vary from word games to mind-benders.
Innovative, but the 'fun' approach might be off-putting to some.**
How to Hold Better Meetings
Alan Barker
Kogan Page
pounds 8.99
Aimed at those who chair meetings, Barker's serious and thoughtful book covers preparation, group dynamics, personal style and on-the-spot problem solving. There is a helpful section on dealing with problem people. Chairpersons will find it invaluable, others less so.**
Team Meeting
Ros Jay
Prentice Hall
pounds 7.99
Concise and factual, this offering devotes an entire section to agenda-setting, something largely overlooked by the other books. It covers the office politics and jockeying that plague meetings, and suggests ways to head off problems. Useful to any reader.***
*** best of its kind
** could be useful
* of minor interest
none: avoid.
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