Larry
Goldstein , Claire Conway , Pat Sanaghan
Stop
wasting time on unfocused and unproductive meetings!
A Common Sense Survey for Assessing
the Meeting Effectiveness of Intact and Ongoing Groups
How effective are your meetings? Do
people come well-prepared? Is there an agenda? Does
everyone participate? Are participants open to the ideas
of others? Do you spend most of your time on the most
important things?
With this survey, you can diagnose the
effectiveness of your meetings and identify practical
ways to improve them. Designed for evaluating intact
and ongoing groups and teams that meet at least once
a week, this tool is an excellent choice if you want
to:
- Stop
time-wasters—such as gabbing, deferring decisions,
talking an issue to death or listening to blowhards
-
Put clear processes and protocols in place—the
nuts and bolts of good meetings
-
Get everyone to participate
Participants
will respond to 50 statements relating to effective
meetings. The statements address five key elements of
effective meetings, identified through extensive research
and observations of thousands of meetings over 20 years:
- Effective
decision-making processes
-
A focus on results
- Positive
group climate
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Basic procedural and protocols
-
Real participation and engagement
Whether
you’re a facilitator, group leader or consultant,
this is a user-friendly tool—not a complex and
validated instrument—that will help you approach
meetings in a disciplined way to ensure the outcomes
you need. |
