The ATLAS Guide to Effective Meetings in Higher Education

Based on ATLAS' popular workshop We've Got to Stop Meeting Like This: Conducting Meetings Effectively, this guide provides a practical, six-step process that can help you conduct better meetings, regardless of your position in higher education. It includes advice on how to make agendas more effective, how to organize the room properly for different types of meetings, how to deal with meeting disruptors and other difficult personalities, how to assign meeting roles, how to reach consensus more easily, how to conduct meetings virtually, and how to streamline the meeting process.NOW IN ITS SECOND EDITION New in this edition: Greatly expanded text, a new section on how to conduct virtual meetings, two brand new role plays, even more agenda templates, a new, more attractive layout, and a larger trim size that makes "fair use" photocopying easier.