Free Webinar: Structuring Effective Meetings in Contentious Settings

Naked Meetings II: Structuring Effective Meetings in Contentious Settings

Wednesday, 11 July 2012
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (Eastern)

We all have to lead contentious meetings from time to time. Either the topic or participants pose a challenge to a thoughtful exchange of ideas. There seems to be little hope of arriving at decisions that all will support. The usual prescriptions for such meetings emphasize changing behavior or using some set of meeting rules. Both are difficult.

There is another approach, one that relies on choosing structures that will influence the conduct of the meeting. The structural choices a leader makes, even if unseen/unrecognized by participants, can greatly improve the civility and productivity of these meetings. In this Nonprofit Webinars session you’ll see some of these structures (the naked meeting) and introduce choices you can make in planning, conducting or achieving results given a (potentially) contentious meeting. Takeaways include:

• How to recognize unseen structures behind contentious meetings
• How to apply selected tools for implementing effective meeting structures in contentious settings including tools for:
  • Using space to promote a different interaction
  • Reaching a decision
  • Structuring a respectful discussion
  • Building decisions