The Meetings Handbook: Formal Rules and Informal Processes

Ronald D. Francis; Anona F. Armstrong

doi:10.7135/UPO9780857289322

The Meetings Handbook: Formal Rules and Informal Processes is a comprehensive manual to the rules and formal procedures of meetings, as well as a useful guide to understanding the informal processes that underlie their success. The handbook explains the formal issues of meeting processes, including the setting of agendas and the putting forward of formal motions, and canvasses informal aspects such as preparatory work and the reading of participants nonverbal messages. It also offers insight into how to chair meetings, as well as guidance on how to deal with those who seek to subvert the formal rules. A unique accompaniment to the more conventional legal books, which act as good formal guides, The Meetings Handbook also provides supplementary examples of constitutions, agendas, minutes and an ethical code. In order to make the material readily useable, the book is divided into sections that may act as stand-alone guides to specific meetings issues and strategies, thus making it the perfect tool for the busy professional.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-x

List of Tables
pp xi-xii

Acknowledgements
pp xiii-xiv

Introduction
pp xv-xx

Part One - Structural Essentials
pp 1-28

Part Two - Informal Processes and Social Matters
pp 29-62

Part Three - Ethics
pp 63-92

Part Four - Samples of Relevant Papers
pp 93-140

Part Five - The Formal Rules
pp 141-154

References
pp 155-158

Index
pp 159-164

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