Skill
Chairing meetings is a skill; effective chairing is measured both by the outcomes of a meeting and the fulfilment of those attending. What I shall share here is for the more formal type of meeting and will need to be interpreted appropriately into different settings.
Who should chair a meeting?
Often the ‘senior’ person assumes he or [...]
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International eNews
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Agendas
To [...]
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Meeting with purpose
Meetings should be purposeful and all attending must be clear about the purposes. To assist with this an agenda is essential. This may sound a bit formal for some meetings but even if it is constructed on arrival due to the meeting’s spontaneity it helps focus the minds of those attending on what [...]
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In the last blog we looked at some of the core characteristics that are common to all meetings. Now we shall look at the different types of meeting.
Types of meeting
The types of meeting I attend fall into three categories:
1. Informal and often spontaneous
2. One in a defined series towards a particular goal
3. On-going for the purpose of [...]
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I am involved in many different types of meeting. Not all have the same structure or importance but listing them may give you a point of identity from your own scene, so I will discuss them briefly in the next blog.
First, however, all need to have certain characteristics or questions answered.
Characteristics
1. What is the purpose?
2. What are [...]
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The future of Time Management
I still have one more Time Management posting to make about PDAs but am not yet ready to do so. In the meantime I want to begin a new series on meetings. I hope you will find it helpful.
Meetings in abundance
Do you ever feel that the Lord got it wrong?! When [...]
We have now completed the detailed material I wished to share but there are two more sections I shall include. First, a summary and then a look at applying these principles on a PDA.
Summary
Initially I set out to share my own experience, not to give a comprehensive overview of various different time management systems. [...]
The symbols we use to monitor progress are
During the planning process:
* Urgent
[J] Delegate (e.g. to Jan)
( ) Reference
For Monitoring progress:
^ In Process
/ Completed
> Transferred
x Dropped
Symbols used in the planning/prioritising process
In the last post we saw that * highlights urgency. This is used at the time of planning the day’s priorities, as is the delegation symbol [J], where the initial refers to the [...]
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Hopefully you have a grasp of appointment time. Now let’s look at discretionary time.
As the term implies this is time over which you have discretion. Appointments are often determined by someone else; discretionary time is always for you to determine and use at your discretion. In any day this is the time where the battle [...]
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A promise
The techniques of Time Management I am going to share with you give you a water-tight system. There is no reason for you ever to miss an appointment or activity that is important to you again! Can that be true? Yes! But first, it is important to have an understanding of time.
Types of Time
Broadly, there [...]
