Making the Most of Meetings: Meetings by Design

In our experience training leaders to conduct effective meetings we've found that most meetings are "dead on arrival". Many meetings are doomed to fail- by design.

In our one day "Making the Most of Meetings" training we focus not only on the key skills, style and tools of effective meeting facilitation, but on how to design meetings that make it easy for people / attendees to make productive contributions.

Our helpful article of Meetings by Design has been recently accepted and published at: Published Meetings by Design

You can also access a downloadable PDF at: Meetings by Design

I hope you take a nugget or two from the article and make a positive change to your meetings. People will notice.

This site is intended to provide visitors with information, perspective, tools and guidance in the areas of leadership, team and organizational effectiveness. Leaders at all levels as well as those in the “development” (HR, consulting, etc.) community may find this a useful place to visit, to reenergize, tool up and hone their skills.

There will be a number of sources that the information and content on this site will come from. Some content may come from our established programs such as LEAD, Leadership Skill & Style Development, Team Based Management, Respect & Recognition, etc. There are categories on this site for you to choose from. I have highlighted these categories in bold type face below.

Client Highlights and client service summaries or case studies provide a great deal of insight and will be found here.

I learn a great deal, about what works and what doesn’t every week. On this site you will also get to share in and learn from my experiences and lessons learned as facilitator of change, leadership and team effectiveness. Some topics/categories that I find particularly energizing, have regular experiences with and have a lot to contribute on are:
• Organizational Culture and Climate.
• Leadership.
• Teams, Teambuilding, Team Based Management (TBM).
• Organizational Change: concepts, tools, theories, application, experiences, etc.

Finally, as a visitor, I ask that you contribute information and give us all the benefit of your experience as well as pose questions to guide the focus and content of this site.

Change. A simple word with just one syllable and a straight-forward meaning: “to make into a different form.” But, in organizations, that simple word represents a complex series of events that, if not managed properly, can spin a company into chaos. It is an undeniable fact that change drives business.

Companies have been expanding, down sizing, re-engineering, and going global. Whatever the cause, the reality is that all companies have been, and will continue to be, touched by change. Some of this change will be evolutionary. Some will be revolutionary. Regardless of how change comes about, the way it is led and managed determines the level of success companies will enjoy as the 21th century unfolds.

Our mission at the General Systems Consulting Group and LEAD Institute is to assist our clients in leading and managing change, helping them to make their organizations more productive and better places in which to work.

Over the past thirty years we’ve provided consulting and change management services to such companies as Raytheon, General Dynamics, Ford, Honda, Siemens, ABB, Autoliv, AT&T, Eaton, Glaxo Smith Kline, Motorola, NASA, NIST, First Energy, DHL, BWXT & McDermott, Lucent, Pall and Estee Lauder, to name just a few. Because of the depth and breath of our consulting experiences, we’ve developed and integrated, client centered approaches to change management. The four corner stones of the services we provide lay within the areas of Leadership Development, Team Development, Strategic Organizational Development and Training & Education. Because ours is an integrated, holistic approach, it allows us to design change processes that fit our client’s needs and deliver real value to them.