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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.
Implementing Total Quality Meetings (TQM)
Implementing Total Quality Meetings (TQM)
How can one actually bring about total quality meetings (TQM)? The answer is easier than you might think.
The first step is to familiarize yourself with what the meeting masters have done. It is always good to understand the best practices. The fact is, however, that if one has read a book on riding a bicycle, it does not mean that one can leave the house, jump on a bike, and perform as an expert.
So the second step is experimentation here and there. After one has a fair grasp of the recipe, then one needs to try out pieces of that recipe. In part, this is to get a feel of what is actually going on when ...
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