One Step Ahead: Organizing and Participating in Meetings

by Leigh, Judith; Seely, John

• ISBN13: 9780198662846
• ISBN10: 019866284X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This lively and accessible guide will enable you to approach meetings positively by taking you through each stage from initial invitation through to reading the final minutes. In two sections, it gives step-by-step guidance on what happens at both formal and informal meetings and how to participate productively. Topics include telephone meetings, online meetings, and video conferencing, creating agendas, writing papers or reports, chairing meetings, and presenting a paper. This guide is not only aimed at those attending or organizing business meetings, but also at those attending meetings in non-work scenarios such as societies, voluntary organizations, charities, and local groups.

Author Biography

Judith Leigh is former Head of Administration at the Author's Licensing and Collecting Society, where she wrote in-house training manuals, presentations, and proposals. John Seely, the editor of the One Step Ahead series, is an experienced author and teacher of English who has worked in education at all levels from primary school to university. His publications include The Oxford English Programme.

Table of Contents

Part A	6	(97)
Groundwork	6	(8)
Why, who, where, and when	14	(13)
Agendas, papers, reports	27	(17)
Debating and discussing: taking part in a meeting	44	(15)
Chairing a meeting	59	(11)
Minutes	70	(13)
Following up	83	(4)
Troubleshooting	87	(9)
Meetings in the technological age and overseas	96	(7)
Part B: Reference section	103	(34)
Part B Contents	103	(34)
Further reading and resources	137	(4)
Index	141