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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.
Managing Agenda Organization
Managing Agenda Organization
One of the amazing things about going to a meeting organized by an expert is that a number of things have already happened before you have begun (the orchestra principle), but they were unobtrusive. As a participant, you think, “Boy, this was a terrific meeting; I wonder what was so different about it?”
I am again reminded of going to a dinner party where the host and hostess were receiving, visiting, chatting, and yet the entire day may have been spent in preparation so that all was in readiness when you arrived. The focus was on you, the guest. In marketing terms, one might say that from a dinner host's or hostess’ point of view the guest is the customer, and ...
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