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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 Rehearsals, Performances, and Audiences
Managing Rehearsals, Performances, and Audiences
The concept of preparation discussed in Chapter 6 began to touch on the rehearsal-performance split. Rehearsals are the preparation phase of the meeting. The performance is the actual meeting itself. It is not a complicated concept but one that is quite important—critical, really. It can involve one-on-one rehearsal, the so-called sectional rehearsal, or subcommittee rehearsal. But first, a word about the importance of rehearsal.
The Importance of Rehearsal
Public settings are those where we hope to do the very best that we can. They involve what Goffman (1959) calls “performances.” A performance setting is one in which we are evaluated and in which we do not have a second chance to go over, improve, or redo. Performances can ...
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