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Getting on Brilliantly
Recipes for managing successful meetings for adult educators
Annette Zera and Susan Murray More titles on Work and Learning |
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This book is written for any adult educator who has endured rather than enjoyed a meeting, whether a departmental briefing, management meeting or conference. Essentially a workbook, Getting on brilliantly is a collection of recipes, process tools and ideas that help people work well together in groups and meetings.
Modelled on a cookery book, this guide offers off-the-shelf techniques for running successful and inclusive meetings. Organised into sections by outcome, it contains over 80 tried-and-tested recipes with clear step-by-step instructions, whether you want to foster creative thinking, generate ideas, make decisions, negotiate differences of opinion and much, much more…Simple exercises help to ensure that everyone is able to participate meaningfully and that the focus and purposes of the meetings are clear to all. A CD-ROM containing all resources from the book is included.
You don’t need to be an expert or external consultant to use the ideas in this book. It is written for innovative leaders, for managers, for anyone wanting to develop their facilitation skills. Using process tools will have a positive impact on your work, on organisational health, balance and performance.
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Contents
| Section 1 | Read this section |
| Section 2 | Starting meetings |
| Section 3 | Clarifying and framing the meeting |
| Section 4 | Gathering information |
| Section 5 | Analysing your situation |
| Section 6 | Sharing ideas |
| Section 7 | Checking assumptions |
| Section 8 | Sorting priorities |
| Section 9 | Planning for action |
| Section 10 | Getting past difficulties |
| Section 11 | Dealing with conflict |
| Section 12 | Endings |
| Section 13 | Large group interventions |
| Section 14 | Using graphics |
| Index of templates | |
| Bibliography and suggested reading | |
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