Effective Meetings: Improving Group Decision Making

Tropman, John E.

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“…To increase efficiency, one must first determine whether a meeting is necessary or appropriate for the problem 4 . It is useful then to consider the events before, during, and after, to make your meeting as productive and useful as possible 5 – 7 .…”

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How to hold an effective meeting

Koshy¹,

Liu²,

Whitehurst

et al. 2017

International Journal of Surgery Oncology

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Meetings are a common occurrence in academic and medical life. However, most of these meetings will be under-productive and inefficient uses of time. In this article, we provide valuable tips on how best to plan a meeting and get the most out of the people in attendance. This includes how to assess whether a meeting is necessary and what form this meeting should take. In addition to this, guidance is divided into before, during, and after the meeting. This guide will provide structure to your meetings and improve the output you and your team gain from them.

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How to hold an effective meeting

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Whitehurst

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International Journal of Surgery Oncology

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“…Brown et al, 2017;Sandler and Thedvall, 2017b), there is a whole range of mainstream business literature on meetings (e.g. Streibel, 2002;Tomalin, 2014;Tropman, 2013). One notable example in this genre is an old but often-cited piece in Harvard Business Review titled 'How to Run a Meeting', penned by Antony Jay (1976).…”

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“…Because in this literature, meetings are habitually portrayed as a device for bridging silos and for middle managers to translate past performances and work-practices to both upper-echelons and across the organization (e.g. Thomas et al, 2018;Tomalin, 2014). Although this perspective has been recognized in the organization studies literature, meetings are still primarily treated as a method for studying other things, for example, as a site where strategy-as-practice can be studied (e.g.…”

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Planned meetings: Multiplicity, boxed-in dialogues, and deliberative bureaucracy as social form

Paulsson

2022

Current Sociology

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In what ways are meetings a social form? How are meetings organized and how do organizations structure meetings to produce consensus around visions of the future? In this article, planning meetings, which gather representatives from the regional Public Transport Authority and the municipalities involved in public transport planning in Stockholm, Sweden, is probed as a social form. By structuring the meetings as collaborative planning processes, the Public Transport Authority’s ambition is to draw on the municipalities’ multiplicity of experiences and views but then arrive at a consensus, on which a strategic document is produced. However, these meetings are perplexing as a social form. While expectations of their outcomes vary, dialogues in the meetings are boxed-in as they follow standardized protocols for agendas, discussions, and decision points. Planned meetings, as this article shows, are an undertheorized aspect of attempts at future-making among formally independent bureaucracies. The article concludes by proposing that deliberative ideals in bureaucratic settings allude to deliberative bureaucracy through the social form of planned meetings.

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“…If Citrine aimed to assemble a set of standards based on the broad range of common and accepted practices, formulating a doctrine from the variety of organizations and institutions he addressed, then his intention was implicitly to iron out differences. The trend continues, e.g., with Tropman (2014), broadening the context into the expansive definition of "decision-groups," making his modern-day Citrine into an even broader universalizing guide.…”

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Meeting Ethnography

Sandler¹,

Thedvall²

2017

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This volume asks and addresses elusive ontological, epistemological, and methodological questions about meetings. What are meetings? What sort of knowledge, identities, and power relationships are produced, performed, communicated, and legitimized through meetings? How do-and how might-ethnographers study meetings as objects, and how might they best conduct research in meetings as particular elements of their field sites? Through contributions from an international group of ethnographers who have conducted "meeting ethnography" in diverse field sites, this volume offers both theoretical insight and methodological guidance into the study of this most ubiquitous ritual.

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Effective Meetings: Improving Group Decision Making

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