Thursday, October 02, 2008
How to Conduct Small-Group Meetings
IansMessyDesk: "One approach to ensure effective decision making in small, informal meetings is to develop motions and decisions through consensus. Consensus occurs when there is general agreement by the group on the decision being made."
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Being a CMU student, I am involved in a LOT of small group meetings, many of which I feel have little structure. But I don't think that these ideas would help. If at every meeting, we divided up into small groups to brainstorm, nothing would ever get done. additionally, passing motions by the chair is usually more effective for large groups. the advantage of small groups is that everyone can share, thats why they are utilized.
Usually I like these productivity articles a lot more, but it seemed as though the ideas in here were just old news, there was not really any new information. Brainstorming is a whole animal of its own and is important at that, though I think the article was just a little too vague on the topic of small group meetings. All I'm saying is it would be nice to see a little more insight into how to better manage ones self or others.
Having discussed this fairly thoroughly in Production Resource Management last semester I feel that a key part of this article was missing. The implementation of these methods depends greatly on the degree of the meeting as well as the intent of the meeting. All of these tactics don't necessarily work all the time but if you implement them at the correct time, they do help a great deal.
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