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Meetings: The Benefits and the Costs

Prepare Well

Leadership Meetings

Most meetings require strong leadership.  Certainly, situations develop where it is best to let a meeting drift off from its intended purpose.  Sometimes when difficult problems arise, when animosities have developed, or when no method for solving a problem seems to hold much promise, a free-form meeting can yield helpful and unexpected results.  But these are exceptions.  In general, far more meetings fail because of lack of control than because of too much structure.

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Problem And Cause

The leader of a meeting is responsible for providing guidance to the group and helping to unify it.  Different leaders have different styles, and no one style is best for every situation or every individual.  But all leaders must be prepared to fill a variety of roles in order to meet the needs of the group :

1. Initiating.   Suggesting new ideas, presenting problems starting activities for the group.

2. Orienting.  Keeping participants on track. Reminding  them of the purpose of the meeting and of their roles.

3. Clarifying. Making sure that everything said and done in the meeting is understood by all the participants.

4. Informing.  Providing group members with the facts and information they need to make decisions.

5. Integrating. Assembling all facts and ideas during the course of a meeting so that a coordinated plan can be developed.

6. Testing Possible Solutions.  Asking questions and exploring implications of suggestions or proposals.

• Who will be responsible for implementing the plan?

• Can we get the resources to make that idea work?

• What new problems might develop?

• Have similar proposals been tried in past?  What problems developed? Why were the plans dropped? 

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1. Starting Participation

2. Leadership

3. Brainstorming

4. Guideline For Leaders

5. Listening.