Chairing Meetings – Setting Ground Rules
You won’t always need to set ground rules when you chair a meeting. But there are times when you will need them.
So, in this video, we look at the different ground rules you may want to set.
Watching this video is worth 1 Management Courses CPD Point*.
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This video is part of course module number 2.3.2
Program 2: The Manager as Communicator
Course 3: Meetings
Section 2: Chairing Meetings
Primary videos that precede this video include:
– Planning Your Meeting https://youtu.be/u0hqoWIecNU
– Meetings as Conversations https://youtu.be/42kngpo0MPE
– Meeting Discipline https://youtu.be/NWLKP4Lk3BA
Primary videos that follow this video include:
– Hosting the Meeting https://youtu.be/MyyoRz4fKP8
– Housekeeping https://youtu.be/U3PfBOBeqBY
– Managing the Meeting https://youtu.be/cRap-SJ8tpQ
– How to Close Your Meeting https://youtu.be/S0V2-NsLFSs
LESSON NOTES
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We look at the considerations around a wide range of possible ground rules you can use, when you are chairing meetings. These ground rules include:
– confidentiality
– note-taking
– courtesy
– contributing – and how to do it
– challenge
– follow-up
RECOMMENDED EXERCISE
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1. Think about any regular meetings you attend – as chair or as a participant. Do they have explicit ground rules? If not, are there implicit ground rules everyone understands? How satisfactory is the situation? If you think it could improve, how? (3 MC CPD Points)
2. Thinking about regular meetings you chair, what will you do to apply what you have learned to each of those meetings? (1 MC CPD Point)
3. At your next one-off or new meeting, make a deliberate choice about how you will handle ground rules. Then apply that. (2 MC CPD Points)
4. Review the outcomes of your next one-off or new meeting. How successful was the way you handled ground rues? What worked well, and what was less effective? What will do differently next time? (2 MC CPD Points)
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RECOMMENDED READING
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– Running Meetings (HBR) https://geni.us/uTtzzH
– Meetings Suck https://geni.us/PnqAf
– Bad Meetings Happen to Good People https://geni.us/ehWHWW
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