Synopses & Reviews
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. 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, this is an extraordinary resource for anyone who leads, facilitates, or attends meetings. Contents: Introduction/Part 1: Paradigm Shift/Principle Driven: the Seven Imperatives/Part 2: Managing Agenda Organization/Managing Agenda Organization/Managing Agenda Dieting: The Rule of the Agenda Bell/Managing Meeting Text: The Written Rules/Managing Participant Trust: The Integrity Rules/Managing Premeeting and Postmeeting Tasks/Managing Rehearsals, Performances, and Audiences/Managing Emotional Elements of Meetings/Managing the Flow ofIdeas and Proposals: Dealing With Difficulties in Idea Processing/Managing Bases for Decisions in Meetings: The Decision and Choice/Managing Decision and Choice/Managing Positions and Roles in Meetings/Managing Tasks and Functions in Meetings/Managing Conflicting Values in Meetings/Managing the Evaluation Rules/Part 3: Becoming a Master Meeting Manager: Some Tips on Application/Becoming a Master Meeting Manager/Implementing Total Quality Meetings (TQM)/Part 4: Strategic Perspectives on Meetings/The Meeting: Lore and Legend/The Negative Culture of Meetings/But Why Do Things Go Wrong?/Quality Management Equals Quality Decisions/Part 5: Leadership in Family Meeting and Civic/Community Meeting Decision Making/Family Group Decision Making and the Family Meeting/The Eclipse of Community and the Civic Meeting: From Bowling Alone to Meeting Alone/Crisis in Governance: Problems With Boards of Directors/Leadership in Community Decision Making: Ends and Means/Appendix A Writing Samples/Appendix B Sample Evaluation Sheet/References/Bibliography
Synopsis
A best-seller in its first edition, Making Meetings Work Even Better: 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.
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-240) and index.