Who should attend: People who wish to waste less time in meetings.

What you will learn: How to make meetings more useful and efficient for you and other attendees.

Meetings are a fact of life, and larger, more complex projects often involve larger, more complex meetings. Often we wonder "why was that meeting necessary?" A good meeting is necessary, timely, concise, and purposeful. Learn strategies to improve the quality of your meetings, whether you are hosting or attending them. Topics include:

- Meeting madness: Is this meeting necessary?
- Rule #1: Know what you want
- Roping 'em in: Three steps to get an audience
- Great expectations: Agenda dos and don'ts
- When you're leading the meeting: Special responsibilities
- Be a better participant: A checklist
- What about minutes?
- Meeting secrets: The post meeting review
- Special situations

• Mega-meetings
• Teleconferencing
• Videoconferencing
• Translations

Maurita Plouff is a technologist, manager, and teacher, and has been translating between technical and non-technical audiences since her first post in 1972 as a physics laboratory research assistant. She started her consulting business, Expert Innovations, to solve business problems through creative application of technology and common-sense management. An accomplished speaker, she is known for her ability to avoid inducing the "glassy-eyed stare".

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