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How do you help the group avoid the "group think" mindset, and encourage individuals to confidently express their own viewpoints and creativity?

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How do you help the group avoid the "group think" mindset, and encourage individuals to confidently express their own viewpoints and creativity?

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How do you handle an individual who becomes belligerent, or even inappropriate, during a department heads meeting?  (Or any other type of meeting for that matter.)

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How do you handle an individual who becomes belligerent, or even inappropriate, during a department heads meeting?  (Or any other type of meeting for that matter.)

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How often do you think a department or a division should meet?  How do you avoid the feeling of "we are having a meeting because it is on the schedule"?

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How often do you think a department or a division should meet?  How do you avoid the feeling of "we are having a meeting because it is on the schedule"?

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How do you make best use of the person(s) at a meeting who regularly dominate the conversation? They may have something good to offer, but are known as the one to always speak, offer up more than is necessary, and feel that their opinion is the one that everyone is wanting to hear?

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How do you make best use of the person(s) at a meeting who regularly dominate the conversation? They may have something good to offer, but are known as the one to always speak, offer up more than is necessary, and feel that their opinion is the one that everyone is wanting to hear?

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How do you encourage the greatest naysayers of your department to participate, come to the table, be productive in a meeting?

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Do you have any tips for encouraging/supporting faculty to come to meetings prepared?

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Do you have any tips for encouraging/supporting faculty to come to meetings prepared?

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Meetings are better when they build on good preparation - when everyone can hit the ground running. In a corporate environment, you might simply tell the unprepared to leave. We don't do that in schools. How can we make sure everyone does their 'homework'?

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How do you decide when to use your meetings for debating/discussing ideas vs making an 'executive' decision?

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How do you decide when to use your meetings for debating/discussing ideas vs making an 'executive' decision?

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Al Pittampalli (Modern Meeting Standard) calls meetings the ultimate stalling tactic for decision making. When - if ever - is a meeting a good time to problem-solve as a group?

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What's the most effective way to give and/or get feedback on meetings?

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What's the most effective way to give and/or get feedback on meetings?

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Does room arrangement matter? What are some arrangements that have worked well in your experience?

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Does room arrangement matter? What are some arrangements that have worked well in your experience?

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 How do you engage faculty members who are not actively participating? 

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 How do you engage faculty members who are not actively participating? 

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To what degree should a meeting's agenda be set collaboratively and to what degree should the agenda be set by the leader?

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To what degree should a meeting's agenda be set collaboratively and to what degree should the agenda be set by the leader?

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What's the best way to rotate or delegate the facilitation of meetings?

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What's the best way to rotate or delegate the facilitation of meetings?

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We want the work to be spread out, but it's clear that some people are better at this than others. Sometimes that means that it's a small group of people who end up doing all the work all the time, which can lead to frustration or resentment (not from me, I promise! ;)).

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Name the one nagging concern that plagues you most just before you open a meeting you are running?  How do you deal with it? 

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Name the one nagging concern that plagues you most just before you open a meeting you are running?  How do you deal with it? 

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What are the advantages of a large group meeting over a series of smaller ones? I often wonder if we call whole school meetings more out of habit than necessity - especially when smaller groups may be more effective.  

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What are the advantages of a large group meeting over a series of smaller ones? I often wonder if we call whole school meetings more out of habit than necessity - especially when smaller groups may be more effective.  

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What are your best tips for preventing a meeting from being hijacked? Is it ever OK to let your meeting get hijacked?  

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What are your best tips for preventing a meeting from being hijacked? Is it ever OK to let your meeting get hijacked?  

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What type of planning is involved in running effective faculty meetings?

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What type of planning is involved in running effective faculty meetings?

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What is the difference between "facilitating" and "leading" a meeting?

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What is the difference between "facilitating" and "leading" a meeting?