title: Planning and conducting meetings effectively, part I: planning a meeting.
abstract: Meetings are held by leaders for many purposes, including conveying information, raising morale, asking for opinions, brain storming, making people part of the problem-solving process, building trust, getting to a consensus, and making decisions. However, many meetings waste time, some undermine the leader's power, and some decrease morale. Part I of this series of articles gives some tips on basic planning for decision-making meetings. Part II of this series of articles analyzes selected components of decision-making meetings. Part III of this series will be on how the chairperson keeps decision-making meetings on track to make them efficient and productive.
authors: Division of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, MI, USA.
authors: Jay
authors: J
authors: Harolds
mesh_terms: D003226:Congresses as Topic / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D010934:Planning Techniques