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What's interesting too is how strongly you're committing yourselves to making the meeting effective. The only caveat: make sure you're not alone. Don't be the only one rolling the ball uphill; enlist your fellow participants on the road to good meetings.

Jonathan Lehrich
Associate Director
MIT Leadership Center
30 Wadsworth Street, E53-418
Cambridge, MA 02142
(617) 253-6011
jlehrich@mit.edu

M. Anjali Sastry
Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management
E53-329, 30 Wadsworth Street
Cambridge MA 02142
617.253.0965

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<P align="center" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN class="style1"><SPAN class="style2">Think about your worst meetings. </SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P align="center" class="style1 style2" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">Remember what went wrong - <BR></BR>paralysis, mix-ups, boredom, blow outs?</P>
<P align="center" class="style1 style2" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">Are you ready to bring your meetings to life? </P>
<P class="style1 style2">Now you can. Join Professor Anjali Sastry on Thursday, November 30th, for <SPAN class="style6">Effective Meetings: A Practicing Management Seminar</SPAN>. Part of a new Sloan series of management skills opportunities, this focused, dynamic workshop will give you practical tools to turn the dreadful into the successful. Learn from the latest research, others' experience, and your own reflection on the structure, roles, failures, and importance of meetings. You'll come away with a checklist for meeting planning and follow-up, techniques for keeping people on track, and key roles you can play to make the meeting work.</P>
<P class="style1 style2"><EM>Effective Meetings</EM> will be offered on <STRONG>Thursday the 30th, 5:30-7:30 p.m., in E51-335</STRONG>. To keep the course interactive, space will be limited, so <A href="http://sloanspace.mit.edu/dotlrn/clubs/program-all-mba-students/survey/one-survey?survey_id=10846769"><STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: #66aa3d; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">sign up on SloanSpace now</SPAN></STRONG></A>. Don't let your next meeting waste your time - <A href="http://sloanspace.mit.edu/dotlrn/clubs/program-all-mba-students/survey/one-survey?survey_id=10846769"><STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: #66aa3d; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">register</SPAN></STRONG></A> for <EM>Effective Meetings</EM> today!</P>
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Jonathan Lehrich
Associate Director
MIT Leadership Center
30 Wadsworth Street, E53-418
Cambridge, MA 02142
(617) 253-6011
jlehrich@mit.edu

M. Anjali Sastry
Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management
E53-329, 30 Wadsworth Street
Cambridge MA 02142
617.253.0965