COMPLETE HANDBOOK OF BUSINESS MEETINGS MINA Księgarnia

Business Meetings

The Complete Handbook of Business Meetings is intended to assist you and your organization in having meetings that are more productive and more inclusive, leading to wiser and better collective decisions. It provides practical and proven tools for the planning and management of meetings. For the more formal meetings, the book demystifies and humanizes the rules of order. It should induce creative thinking, questioning of entrenched practices, and the adoption of alternative approaches to collective decision making. Ultimately, this book stands to help you in increasing the returns on the substantial investments made in a meeting.

This book will serve the following readers:

Meeting chairs who need tools to better manage time, issues, and people in meetings

Meeting attendees who need tools to participate more effectively and to assert themselves without getting angry

Chief executive officers who need tools to work more effectively with their governing boards

Staff who record minutes, design agendas, and coordinate meeting logistics

This book provides tools to plan, chair, or participate in a variety of meetings: small or large, informal or formal, harmonious or controversial. It is assumed that there is a desire or a requirement to involve members in meaningful discussions and decision making (otherwise why waste their time in a meeting?). Among others, the methods apply to:

Informal meetings of staff committees or larger staff gatherings

Formal meetings of governing boards, councils, and commissions

Large meetings of members of nonprofit organizations, cooperatives, or home owners

General meetings of shareholders of public companies

Public meetings and hearings sponsored by municipal and other statutory bodies

In more than 15 years in practice I have noted the consistent frustration of my clients with books on meeting dynamics and rules of order. Complaints have included: This is such a thick book. Less than 1% of it applies to us, and it would take a detective to discover the 1% that we need.

The rules of order are mechanical and artificial, and they stop the free and creative flow of ideas.

How can a person who was elected president be expected to memorize this many rules? The structure appears to constrain us and slow progress down."

In response to these comments, I have ventured to give you proven tools and ideas for today's meetings. The focus is on advice that is practical, relevant, and readily usable. This advice can save you time and money and can help you build organizational consensus and harmony. As a result, you should be able to use much more than 1% of this book's content immediately, and you should not have to rely on a parliamentary expert to find or interpret what you need.

In this book, I question the conventional wisdom, and challenge you to think and operate "outside the box." By doing so, you will look beyond mechanics and will examine fundamental principles and broad perspectives. I question common practices and dispel myths, as well as make suggestions for discarding procedures that waste time and don't make sense. You will leam ways to shift to a simpler and more user-friendly approach.

318pages

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