ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the broad framework for conducting an effective meeting. Every meeting must further organisational leaders' primary leadership responsibilities of rigor, alignment, and efficiency. While leadership furthering RAE should be exercised and demonstrated in all leadership activities, highly planned and well-executed meetings are often fulcrums of enormous leverage. Preparation for an important meeting can take more time than the meeting itself. Every meeting should have some preparation in advance, ranging from the facilitator putting together an agenda and including it in the emailed invitation to extensive collaboration to set the objective, prepare activities and props, and ensure the meeting begins with proper expectations and alignment. The chapter focuses on leading complex human interactions so we won’t dwell on meetings simple enough for an emailed agenda to suffice.
