From agenda to decision
Meeting agendas, papers and decision making.
- Level
- Bitesize
- Learning time
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Where
- Chairing Meetings, Boards and Committees
- Price
- £39
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Certificate of Completion
Overview and Outcomes.
Overview
Most meetings are won before they start. This module covers Patrick Lencioni's four meeting types and how mismatches show up in real diaries, designing the agenda by what the meeting must do with each item, the anatomy of a good agenda and cover sheet, and papers that offer assurance rather than reassurance. It then turns to the chair's brief and the principle of preparing the room, not the verdict, with a forty-eight hour checklist. This module covers the live craft of helping a room think and decide. It sets out four elements of a good opening, five moves for every agenda item, Sam Kaner's Diamond of Participation and the difference between chairing and facilitating. It gives particular weight to the summary, then looks at decision rules, motions, amendments and the casting vote, Nancy Kline's Thinking Environment, closing well, and disagreeing in the room before standing together once decided.
What you'll develop
In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:
- Identify which of Lencioni's four meeting types fits a conversation and recognise the common signs of a mismatch.
- Design an agenda that classifies each item for decision, discussion, assurance or noting, supported by a clear cover sheet and papers that distinguish assurance from reassurance.
- Plan your own preparation as chair, including the chair's brief, so that it prepares the room without settling the verdict.
- Plan a meeting opening and run each agenda item using the five moves of frame, clarify, debate, test and record.
- Use a four part summary and choose a decision rule, including motions and the casting vote, that fits the decision in front of the meeting.
The Modules.
1 hour 15 minutes of learning.
- 03Before the Meeting: Agenda, Papers and PreparationMost meetings are won before they start. This module covers Patrick Lencioni's four meeting types and how mismatches show up in real diaries, designing the agenda by what the meeting must do with each item, the anatomy of a good agenda and cover sheet, and papers that offer assurance rather than reassurance. It then turns to the chair's brief and the principle of preparing the room, not the verdict, with a forty-eight hour checklist.38 min
- 04In the Room: Structuring Discussion and Reaching DecisionsThis module covers the live craft of helping a room think and decide. It sets out four elements of a good opening, five moves for every agenda item, Sam Kaner's Diamond of Participation and the difference between chairing and facilitating. It gives particular weight to the summary, then looks at decision rules, motions, amendments and the casting vote, Nancy Kline's Thinking Environment, closing well, and disagreeing in the room before standing together once decided.42 min
Keep going.
Part of the Chairing Meetings, Boards and Committees topic, also sold whole as In the chair.
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 15 minutes, £39
- Next stepFocus, The chair's craft, 2 hours 30 minutes, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
- The whole topicExplore, In the chair, 5 hours 30 minutes, £129. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £90.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
Also part of: Governing with confidence, Serving your community well, A seat at the table
