For many years, my company had very clear lines of authority, position, and title. Your title determined everything from the type of phone you had, to the size of your office, to the color of your walls. Although the culture of the organization has since changed, I believe this instilled a fear in many lower-level employees of talking in meetings that included higher-level executives. These executives want everyone in the meeting to feel comfortable voicing their opinions, but have trouble getting full participation. Therefore, my facilitation box focuses primarily on ways to improve participation, though many of the items can be used for other creative purposes as well.
Like Professor Schlake did on the first day of class, I will begin my meetings by passing out the squishy balls and iso flex stress reliever toys to the meeting attendees. In an organization like ours, this will immediately change the tone of the meeting and allow all participants to let down their guard. As we saw in the first class, people will throw the toys to each other and laugh at their silliness. Thes...
Workplace meetings have become as common an occurrence in daily business activity as punching in on a time clock. "Done right, meetings are one of the most powerful communication tools." (Thibodeau, 2005, para. 1). As beneficial as productive meetings can be to business organizations, ineffective meetings can have an equally detrimental effect. Regardless of how boring or pointless they may seem, not even modern technology is a substitute for personal interfacing. Maxwell (2004) states the importance of in-person communication:
When representing the organization the executive director should have excellent public communication, to small group communication skills. The executive director has to constantly change their context when communicating in different events. For instance, when an executive director is implementing a public speech to a large crowd of people, they possess high competence which means, “the ability to communicate effectively” (DeVito, 11). They also communicate with influential meaning in their messages and strong context. “Messages are signals that serves as stimuli for a receiver and are received by one of our senses, auditory, visual, tactile, olfactory, gustatory, or any combination of these senses” (DeVito 12). The executive director uses influential context when getting their point across during public speeches. The executive director should also have the ability to communicate coherently, both in written and oral
Rogelberg, S. G., Allen, J. A., Shanock, L., Scott, C., & Shuffler, M. (2010). Employee satisfaction with meetings: A contemporary facet of job satisfaction. Human Resource Management, 49(2), 149-172.
At Victory, we know riding your motorcycle is the #1 priority – after all, your passion for riding is what started this chapter in the first place. We don’t want you bogged down by paperwork. That’s why we want to keep the heavy business meetings limited to one a year. By utilizing this section and holding one business meeting a year, your chapter can collect all the information that Victory requires – just prepare the forms in this section, send in the required documents, and be done! It’s that simple!
Social Interactions: To help reduce stress, provide opportunities for social interaction between the employees. One approach that I have used many times is to bring in pizza or sandwiches one Friday a month for lunch, this provided an opportunity for social interaction between employees from different departments and even management.
Twelve steps meetings are thought to be a vital part of recovery for those battling addiction. While it has been proven to help those with addiction maintain sobriety, there are skeptics who feel that they aren’t as productive as advertised. Research on the effectiveness of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is controversial and is subject to widely divergent interpretations (Kaskutas, 2009). I was able to see firsthand how a meeting is conducted by attending the Back to Basics AA meeting in Columbus, GA. My paper will address some of my thoughts and feelings about the meeting, my overall experience, and how it has informed my practice as a counselor.
...m feeling disregarded or left out, time wasted when conflicts and misunderstandings arise, and capital resources allocated on legal fees and settlements. Fortunately, today’s business organizations are increasingly recognizing the importance of a more inclusive and equitable work environment as their bottom line.
On a weekly basis, Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings are held to review in progress and upcoming significant change requests. Members of the board are comprised of IS Team lead and managers. However, other department technical expertise will be included as needed.
Engagement is also an important part for the employees. The company provides information of the board meetings to all employees. This enhances the employees’ feelings of being well-informed and engaged. The employees even can challenge the current unit wage for manufactured parts. This is an open discussion, so we can see that employees are treated as if they were partners.
Materials to achieve the idea of universality are seemingly simple, but often times can be a challenge. Although no physical materials are required, client willingness to voice their concerns and fears to other group members can often be challenging. Combating this issue begins with the group leader. Making group members feel comfortable in confiding with other members must begin with a safe space to do so and encouragement from group
My leadership style is primarily participative. Consultation contributes to more effective decisions leveraging the collective wisdom of the group, and, by soliciting their input, a greater degree of personal interest and satisfaction from participants (Yukl, 2013, p. 107). No one has all the answers, but together, in an open and trusting environment, all of us can collaborate toward a solution (Bennis, 2009, p. 133). Consultation and delegation within a shared philosophical framework serves to build support, personal investment, and leadership capacity amongst participants (Yukl, 2013, p. 384).
Prendiville, P. (1995). Developing Facilitation Skills – A Handbook for Group Facilitators. Ireland: Combat Poverty Agency.
The Employee Retention Committee Meeting involves certain number of people who coordinate according to the schedules setup by the members and correlate their activities with the work of related committees (Liebler 2008 pg 326). The meeting was scheduled ten days earlier and personally notified to the committee and still promptness was ignored by the chairman. Also committee members should be more responsible and participating but we have seen that some members have forgotten that there was a meeting. A committee is more than an informal group that meets to discuss an issue and share ideas, even if such a group meets regularly (Liebler 2008 pg 312). It is a duty of the chairperson to check to the compliance with mandate deadlines and action and obtain a meeting space (Liebler 2008 pg 326), but in the present circumstances we see that both the duties were not considered and meeting was held in a small and stuffy room with no enough chairs for the committee members. It would be rather better if the meeting would have been scheduled in a larger room with better surroundings. The duties o...
Hurley, Thomas and Juanita Brown. “Conversational Thinking: Thinking together for a Change.” Oxford Leadership Journal 1.2 (2010). http://www.oxfordleadership.com/journal/vol1_issue2/olj_vol1issue2.pdf
Effective business communication is central to the success of an individual’s career and consequently to that of the overall business entity. It would be imaginable therefore that there is some form of correlation between effective communication skills and such success. To put this into context, University of Kent (2011) has placed Verbal Communication at the top of the ten skills that employers most commonly look for. On the same note, anything that hinders effective communication is bound to have a negative effect not only on the specific message delivery, but also on the overall success of a career. In this paper, some of the barriers to effective business communication are discussed, with a few examples of how they affect the process.