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A best-seller in its first edition, Making Meetings Work: Achieving High Quality Group Decisions, Second Edition covers everything you need to know about organizing engaging meetings, including preparing agendas, controlling what happens behind the scenes prior to and after meetings, and managing conflicting values and personalities. Through the Meeting Masters Research Project at the University of Michigan, author John E. Tropman observed and interviewed the nation's most successful meeting experts to find out how to make meetings both stimulating and productive. Based on his findings, Tropman formulated seven principles and fourteen commandments for implementing dynamic meetings.
This second edition has been extensively revised and expanded to include
Family meetings and family group decision making; Problems and solutions for board of directors meetings; Community and civic meetings; Volunteers and meetings; Leadership in community decision making
Making Meetings Work: Achieving High Quality Group Decisions, Second Edition provides simple, easily applied best practices for supervising or instigating meetings with decision accomplishment outcomes. Author John E. Tropman reveals goal oriented procedures that keep proposals moving towards quality group decision making and assure other participants look forward to attending your meetings.
Written with humor and a deep understanding of the realities of business and political life, Making Meetings Work: Achieving High Quality Group Decisions, Second Edition is an extraordinary resource for anyone who leads, facilitates, or attends meetings.
Leadership in Family Meeting and Civic/Community Meeting Decision Making
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As I have mentioned, meetings are seen to be awful, but this awfulness is accepted as if it were a force of nature. Time after time, I have exposed people to better ways of doing meetings, whether through a training exercise, a training film, or helping them to experience an actual meeting that goes really well. Their response is appreciative, respectful, envious, and one in which they express admiration for the tools and skills of the meeting master. The odd part about it, however, is that they somehow do not see it as anything they could do.
It is sort of like ...
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