Podcast 17: Facilitating Better Meetings is about More than Just a Soft Skill

Meeting facilitation may not seem like a soft skill, but it can
easy serve as a gateway to more productivity and opportunity for
leaders, managers and organizations.
 
Hosts Dr. Tobin Porterfield and Bob Graham discuss the cost and
culture surrounding ineffective meetings and why good meetings
really do require strong soft skills.

In this episode, they discuss:
The incredible cost to American companies from unproductive
meetings.
Why meeting facilitation is on the soft skills list
How technology makes meeting planning and management easier
Why technology makes meetings even more difficult to
facilitate
Tips for leading productive meetings
Tips for how to be a good meeting attendee
Why some meetings might not be necessary
The two times that holding a meeting really makes sense
Examples of the best and worst meetings
The soft skills at play in meetings

Share your best or worst meeting story with them at @RealSoftSkills
or at podcast (at) serioussoftskills.com.
Next week’s episode will feature a discussion of the environment in
which soft skills operate and how different environments could mean
using different soft skills to achieve the same tasks.
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