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.

Your 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 (see Chapter 7) to your instructor, discuss your analysis.