We've Got to Stop Meeting Like This!
Get tips to enhance meeting efficiency and effectiveness in this webinar that focuses on setting agendas and managing interactions for both leaders and participants.
Dr. Steven A. Beebe, Regents' and University Distinguished Professor emeritus, Texas State University
Most people hate meetings. Perhaps you have felt like this exasperated meeting participant who said, “If I die, I hope it’s during a faculty meeting because the transition to death would be so subtle.” Yet meetings need not be frustrating and a waste of time. This seminar called “We’ve Got To Stop Meeting Like This!” presents essential principles and skills to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of meetings. Participants will learn tips for developing and using a meeting agenda and managing meeting interaction to help keep a meeting on track. Whether you are the meeting leader or a participant, this seminar offers practical tips to improve meetings.
About the speaker
Dr. Steven A. Beebe, Regents' and University Distinguished Professor emeritus, Texas State University
Steven A. Beebe is Regents' and University Distinguished Professor emeritus at Texas State University. He served as Chair of the Department of Communication Studies at Texas State for 28 years and concurrently as Associate Dean for 25 years. Dr. Beebe is author or co-author of numerous articles and book chapters, and 15 widely-used communication books, including the recently published 13th edition of Communicating in Small Groups: Principles and Practices. He served as President of the National Communication Association, the largest academic communication association in the world.
He has been a Visiting Scholar at both Oxford University and Cambridge University in England. Steve made international headlines when conducting research at Oxford when he discovered a manuscript that was the partial opening chapter of a book that was to be co-authored with J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis called Language and Human Nature. Steve's book, C. S. Lewis and the Craft of Communication, chronicles the discovery and identifies Lewis's contributions to communication.
He was Texas State’s Honors Professor of the year, twice received the Everette Swinney Excellence in Teaching Award (the highest teaching award given by the Faculty Senate), was designated a Piper Professor by the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation, and was named Outstanding Communication Professor in America by the National Speaker's Association. He recently received the 2024 Wallace A. Bacon Lifetime Teaching Excellence Award from the National Communication Association. His passions include his family and a lifelong love of music; he is a pianist, organist and a struggling cellist.