Evaluating Meetings:
Effective or Ineffective? Now that you have studied how to plan and participate in productive meetings, you should be able to judge whether meetings are successful and why.
Task. Attend a structured meeting of a college, social, business, or other organization. Compare the way the meeting is conducted with the suggestions presented in this chapter. Why did the meeting succeed or fail? In class discussion or in a memo to your instructor, discuss your analysis.