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I am not a conversation specialist but here are some tips that I have been using and I've found them pretty effective. 1) Be the first one to listen, and be the last one to talk. Most of the time you can solicit enough information in the discussion and then come up with a summarizing statement. Those kinds of statement are usually harder to debunk because ...

There seems to be a wealth of websites which handle this kind of stuff. For instance, http://www.timetomeet.info/ claims to integrate with Outlook, iCal, and Google. However, for integrity reasons it's questionable if you should entrust unknown 3rd party websites with personal schedules. Personally I'd go for a locally installed tool. But, of course, ...

I personally scribble notes on scrap paper, then (as soon as possible) afterwards condense them in my Zim wiki. Zim is a fabulous piece of software. I typically have a page per customer or project, then subpages per meeting or subissue. Zim allows searching (did you ever have to search for something that you discussed three years ago, but you don't really ...

Others have mentioned a lot of tools that can do this, but all of them are predicated on the accuracy of everyone's calendar. In certain situations, it's important to maintain your calendar in the context of a group's needs. The first step is to make sure all appointments are up to date in all calendars. There will be a lot of rescheduling when certain ...

The two things you can do to really help here are: Go in with a solid agenda, which covers of everything you want to discuss. This won't help you with something that comes completely out of left field but it at least helps you organise your thoughts. Practice: this can be anything from debating to improv theatre. If you feel you lose the initiative in ...

What you could do is this. For a 5 hour meeting make 5 blocks of 1 hour each. Then have a reminder set 5 mins before the next block starts. So when you get this reminder, you have a break. So if you have set google calendar to remind you 5 mins before the next block starts, you stop the meeting as soon as you get the reminder and then have a 5 mins break. ...