Chapter 2
Strictly Business: Defining Meetings
IN THIS CHAPTER
Finding out how to run a shareholder’s meeting
Bringing board members together
Having fun with corporate retreats
Putting together a sales meeting
Getting together unexpectedly
The dictionary defines a meeting as “a coming together of persons or things.” In this chapter, I add some specifics to the dictionary definition by taking a look at the characteristics of several different types of corporate business meetings. This chapter shows you what a shareholders meeting is, as well as a board meeting, corporate retreat, sales conference, and more.
This chapter is a lexicon of meeting types. It provides you with the definitions of specialized meetings that you may be asked to plan. Because the basics of meeting planning hold true for each type of meeting discussed, the tips, advice, and instructions throughout this book will help you when planning all of them. The information in later chapters is relevant to board meetings ...
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