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Some companies aim to tame meetings. Standing Room Only

To boost the productivity of meetings, companies are turning to meeting planners, how-to books and management classes that focus on improving workplace gatherings.

Some are making meetings standing-only — using aching knees and arches to signal it’s time to finish.

But many employers still are struggling when it comes to running meetings well. A 2005 report by the Society for Human Resource Management, which notes that unproductive meetings are a costly drain on businesses, says hallmarks of bad meetings include having no agenda, too many participants and lack of training for those who lead meetings.

"It’s such a novelty for us to interface with actual human beings instead of our keyboards, headsets or monitors that we’ve practically forgotten how to communicate one-on-one," said Rachel Weingarten in New York, an author and president of GTK Marketing Group, in an e-mail.

What some companies are doing to improve meetings:

By Stephanie Armour, USA TODAY

Full Story: http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2006-07-05-meeting-usat_x.htm

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