With this concise, practical guide in hand, you can immediately begin to conduct truly productive meetings that yield maximum results in minimum time and with less friction than ever before. *Meetings That Matter* is a book that matters. Emphasizing the leader's supervision of the productivity process, this lively handbook shows how you can hold task-oriented meetings that do achieve results. Instead of just talk, your meetings can produce decisions, solutions, action. You'll learn how to precisely identify the primary goals of each meeting before it convenes, and how to ensure rewarding results for both yourself and your organization. Filled with real-life applications and helpful tips, enlivened by instructive, wryly humorous cartoons, Meetings That Matter will be a boon to supervisors, managers, professionals, community and political leaders, and anyone else who wants to get the most out of the meetings they conduct or attend. *Meetings That Matter* is one of the Wiley Self-Teaching Guides. It's been tested, rewritten, and retested until we're sure you can easily apply its principles and methods. And it's individualized so you work at your own pace. Throughout the book there are dozens of Applications which pose practical problems. Each chapter also includes a Summary Application that takes you step-by-step through a real-life meeting situation, as well as a Checklist which you can photocopy for your personal use in evaluating and improving meetings that you attend.