the book
Effective Meetings is an easy-to-read, incredibly detailed, yet never dry manual for holding better meetings.
It helps readers: - identify their meeting culture - design better agendas - encourage full participation - shape clear decisions - deal with difficult behaviours and much more. |
the author
Bruce Partridge was a survivor – a survivor of several thousand meetings! Like many people who will pick up this book, Bruce had found meetings to be a vital part of his professional work life, and also of his life as a community volunteer.
In this book Bruce shares what he had learned in his many years of varied experience. Using it, you can learn to plan and conduct meetings that are democratically managed , effective, and yes, enjoyable for you and for all of the participants |
Most of us have attended well run meetings which conducted business in a friendly but efficient manner; unfortunately, most of us have also been forced to sit through meetings which were nothing more than a shambles. In the well-conducted meetings we usually took the work of the chairperson for granted but in those that were disorganized we could see clearly the need for an efficient and organized chairperson. For those of us tasked with chairing meetings, Bruce Partridge’s book is an easy to follow guide that can help us to conduct meetings efficiently and democratically with effective decision making.
Jim Manly
United Church minister, former MP for Nanaimo (1980 -1988), writer, social activist, and veteran of many, many meetings
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