Introduction
The Five-Fold Path to Productive Meetings is a special bonus chapter from Starhawk’s The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups. Productive meetings allow an organization to move forward, keep members engaged and give them a sense of empowerment and efficacy.Meetings can be cauldrons of group creativity or occasions of intimate sharing. And, of course, they can also be long-winded, fruitless, pointless arenas of frustration. The difference is often what makes or breaks a group.There are five aspects of structure and interpersonal dynamics we must pay special attention to if we want our meetings to be truly productive. I call this the Five-Fold Path of Productive Meetings.
Contents of the Chapter
The Five-Fold Path of Productive Meetings
- Learning to Love Meetings 1
- Right People 2
- Right Container 5
- Right Process 8
- Right Facilitation 33
- Right Agenda 52
- The Five-Fold Path 57
Exercises
- Key Questions About Who Should Be At a Meeting 3
- Encouraging People To Come 4
- Ongoing Communication 4
- A Template for Minutes 5
- Simple Voting Procedure 14
- Consensus Roles 19
- Hand Signals 21
- Facilitators’ Toolbox 41
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