| Building
Better Decision Making Bodies
This
workshop includes two segments. It will give your decision making
body the tools it needs to achieve excellence in decision-making.
It will enable your group to remain focused on its mandate, make knowledge-based
and strategically-driven decisions, maximize opportunities, minimize
exposure to risk, and have productive and inclusive meetings.
Segment
1:
Effective Decision Making |
Segment
2:
Meetings & Rules of Order |
In this segment we discuss how to achieve excellence in
decision-making. We help you make your group's decisions
more proactive, visionary, smart, sustainable and inclusive.
Specific topics include:
- Measuring
Board/Council effectiveness .
- Making
knowledge-based decisions.
- Evaluating
a Board.
- Roles
of the Chair and each voting member.
- Roles
of administrative staff, committees.
- Consensus
vs Majority based decisions.
- Minority's
duty to accept collective decisions.
- Placing
collective interests ahead of narrow ones.
- Conflict
of interest guidelines.
- Confidentiality
guidelines ("in-camera meetings").
- Preventing
and dealing with team dysfunctions.
- Community
and stakeholder involvement.
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In this segment we present tools to make your meetings productive,
timely, inclusive, and even enjoyable. We also discuss how
to use rules of order sensibly and intelligently in formal
meetings. Specific topics include:
- Ten key
ingredients of a successful meeting.
- Proactive
and visionary planning of meetings.
- Chair's
roles and member's roles in a meeting.
- Managing
people, time and issues in a meeting.
- Keeping
a meeting on track and on time.
- Handling
counter-productive behaviours.
- Core
principles of rules of order.
- Hierarchy
of governing documents.
- Majority,
tie votes, abstentions, quorum.
- Chair's
debating and voting rights.
- Handling
Main Motions, Amendments.
- Motions
to postpone, refer, "table", others.
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