http://www.asmallchange.net/who-likes-meetings/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=who-likes-meetings Making Sense of Fundraising Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:58:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.asmallchange.net/who-likes-meetings/#comment-462 Jamie Notter Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:31:16 +0000 http://www.asmallchange.net/?p=364#comment-462 Great post. My favorite book on the topic is "Death by Meeting" by Patrick Lencioni. Great post. My favorite book on the topic is “Death by Meeting” by Patrick Lencioni.

]]> http://www.asmallchange.net/who-likes-meetings/#comment-461 Maria Polletta Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:21:11 +0000 http://www.asmallchange.net/?p=364#comment-461 This was such a helpful post. As someone who has has both led meetings where it seemed impossible to get people engaged and attended meetings where I was couldn't seem to pay attention either, I think your strategies would prove very effective for both meeting leaders and those in attendance. The worst meetings I've been to have been those where the leaders didn't seem prepared and those that went on way longer than expected even though nothing was being accomplished simply because there was no set ending time to aim for. Both of those problems would be alleviated by your guidelines. Something else I might suggest would be (if the number of people at the meeting is small enough and permits) is to have each member responsible for some part of the agenda. Even if it is something really small, this would: a) require each member to familiarize himself enough with some portion of information so he could engagingly present it, b) help that member, once he's familiar with that aspect, to make connections between that information and the presentations of others, c) simply know what it's like to try and get people to pay attention to you! This was such a helpful post. As someone who has has both led meetings where it seemed impossible to get people engaged and attended meetings where I was couldn’t seem to pay attention either, I think your strategies would prove very effective for both meeting leaders and those in attendance. The worst meetings I’ve been to have been those where the leaders didn’t seem prepared and those that went on way longer than expected even though nothing was being accomplished simply because there was no set ending time to aim for. Both of those problems would be alleviated by your guidelines. Something else I might suggest would be (if the number of people at the meeting is small enough and permits) is to have each member responsible for some part of the agenda. Even if it is something really small, this would: a) require each member to familiarize himself enough with some portion of information so he could engagingly present it, b) help that member, once he’s familiar with that aspect, to make connections between that information and the presentations of others, c) simply know what it’s like to try and get people to pay attention to you!

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