Yet not everyone knows the best way to run a meeting over the telephone.

"I've run a meeting with a bunch of high school kids."

"First we taught them how to run a meeting," he told me in his Baghdad office.

But a good leader runs a meeting that also is productive in some way for each person there."

I know how to run a meeting.

The easy part, most specialists agree, is teaching skills like running a meeting, resolving conflicts and getting the best out of creative people.

Harry, almost laughing, said, 'You can't run a meeting with a 150-page agenda!' "

On the municipality's behalf, the local workers' welfare community club runs a meeting place for senior citizens.

See the facilitator article for details of exactly how a facilitator might run a meeting.

Hillsong Church runs a meeting for women entitled the Sisterhood.

"In a moderator, people look for someone who can run a meeting fairly and with a little bit of entertainment," Mr. Rybak said.

"In some ways I'm getting more confidence in myself - when I first began I didn't even know how to run a meeting," he said.

In one episode, he ran a meeting with his army of pushers according to Robert's Rules of Order.

For him, Don Corleone's sit-down with the drug-dealing Sollozzo becomes a lesson in how to run a meeting.

Monthly leadership seminars are held on topics ranging from "How to Run a Meeting" to "Understanding Self & Others."

He ran a meeting record of 20.43 in the 200m at the Meeting Atletica Internazionale Barletta, which he still holds today.

Whether you need to launch a new product, run a meeting with participants in multiple locations, or provide training to off-site employees, hosting a Web conference may be the best solution.

He did not think he would ever have the autonomy to run a meeting or make a decision or rule the inbred little bunker as long as Parcells was around.

One item Mr. Byrne recommends to committee and district chairmen is a video Judge Tobin narrated called "How to Run a Meeting."

On Saturday, Mr. Qurei made a rare trip from the West Bank to Gaza City to run a meeting of Palestinian factions and the security forces.

"Not one of us had done a budget, really run a meeting - I mean we didn't know about taxes," recalled Bryan Lourd, now a managing partner at Creative Artists.

He has also published (2013) a handbook on "How To Make a Speech and How To Run A Meeting" (See Amazon.Com/Kindle).

"You're so brusquesure of yourselfopinionated, Cora," she lamented, when she saw me running a meeting of quarrelsome church festival workers or answering questions after one of my food talks at a local women's group.

Pamela Kerwin, who joined the company in 1989 and is now a vice president, recalls how Jobs would run a meeting: "After the first three words out of your mouth, he'd interrupt you and say, 'O.K., here's how I see things.'

She orchestrated insurance coverage for major American corporations and she was so devoted to detail that early on Sept. 11, as she was preparing to run a meeting on the 105th floor of 2 World Trade Center, she polished the office furniture.