The average American employee attends 60 meetings a month, and librarians and library staff are no exception. The most impact you have on the day-to-day relationships with your colleagues will likely happen at meetings. It’s imperative that you know how to run good meetings and how to be a productive meeting attendee. This short course will give you strategies to make your meetings the best they can be.

For both in-person and virtual meetings, this course will teach you how to evaluate if you actually need a meeting and if so, who should attend. You’ll also learn strategies to maximize meeting time, as an attendee or a manager, from creating agendas to fostering discussion to embedding accountability for action items, all in a way that is sincerely respectful of the time of those involved.