Hold Successful Meetings (Penguin Business Experts Series)

During my career, and in my own business I’ve experienced many ineffective, boring meetings so I was curious to find out what this book suggests to have successful meetings. There are many valuable pointers and take-aways in this book. I immediately realised I was trying to do too many different things in a meeting. What I’ll be doing differently in future is to consider whether a real time meeting is actually necessary for a particular outcome? The reason for the meeting needs to be crystal clear so you can put in place a process to ensure you achieve the goal of the meeting. Is it a brainstorming meeting, or are you trying to reach a final decision on something? Perhaps these need to be two different types of meeting. The goal of the meeting should be clear to every participant and should be achievable. I got real clarity as I read the first few chapters. This is a useful book that’s easy to read. Highly recommend it.

Great new book on this ever-important topic. I enjoyed the content, style, format and length.It's packed with useful lists and practical tips from expert and business leaders that can be used in many scenarios.It also has lots of ideas in relation to virtual meetings and remote teams which are very useful, especially in this new era of working remotely and from everywhere.Highly recommended for people new to this as well as seasoned professionals!

This book has been an eye opener as to how we can all have successful meetings and meeting etiquette that we all need to improve on for both face to face and virtual meetings. I absolutely recommend Caterina's 4D framework to run our meetings as it does give clarity and focus we all need. Meetings are supposed to provide clarity rather than leave us confused.

Meetings happen is virtually every business and organisation; yet we don’t ever pay attention to how to make them effective. This book is beautifully written and provides a huge amount of insight and practical advice on how to make meetings work for your business. I found it really easy to read and hugely useful and have already applied many of the lessons successfully in my own business.

This book has challenged me as a leader to think more critically about how, when, and why my team has meetings. The scenarios and examples in this book will make you consider alternative approach that will not only make you a better leader, but also teach you how to be a better facilitator of meetings. Your team will be more productive and have more meaningful meetings.

Very interesting book, I'd recommend it to all leaders/managers. I liked in particular the suggestions given to keep people engaged during the meetings and the need to distinguish clearly among different types of meetings.I learned so much from this book, it really is a must if you do any kind of meetings in your workplace.

I bought this book since I was worried that my team meetings were quite boring and innefective. This book goes deep into issues that affect the success of meetings and it also goes behond meetings, into team dynamics. I really enjoyed it and bought it for my team.

I bought this book to provide stimulus on how I could better structure and run my meetings with a range of people that I work with. I finished the book inside a week and have put some of the techniques into practice already.