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[Fwd: Mastering Meetings: Tools for Collaborative Action]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Anderson)
Wed Dec 6 08:08:20 2000
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Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 08:09:17 -0500
From: Greg Anderson <ganderso@MIT.EDU>
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Kate Kibbee wrote:
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> Dear Colleaques,
> On December 20th & 21st, IS is offering a workshop on collaborative problem solving that focuses on meeting facilitation. A description of this two day workshop is listed at the end of this email.
>
> The Organization & Employee Devleopment (formerly PC&T) group at MIT has offered this program successfully many times to over 175 MIT staff. IS collaborated with OED to offer this workshop exclusively to IS in August and again now in December.
>
> In August, 2000, Jim Bruce announced that all Directors and Team Leaders would be required to take this course in the next 12 months in order to improve the quality and effectiveness of meetings in IS. In an ongoing effort to support this goal, we invite you to attend these sessions.
>
> If you have any questions, or to rsvp, please contact me by replying to this email or call me at 3-8181.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Kate Kibbee,
>
> IS Competency Group Team
>
> ********************************************************************************************
> Mastering Meetings: Tools For Collaborative Action
>
> December 20 & 21, 2000, 8:30am-5pm
> W89, Room 315
> Instructors: Dani Aivazian and Kate Kibbee
>
> Mastering Meetings presents a framework and tools for improving the collaborative problem solving & decision making effectiveness in a meeting and ensuring follow-through on actions & decisions. Participants learn many ways to help make meetings more effective and they have a chance to try out a number of these tools during class.
>
> By the end of this workshop, a participant can expect to have:
> 1) an expanded repertoire of strategies, skills, and practical tools for
> collaborative problem solving and decision making effectiveness in a meeting
> 2) an action plan to assist in implementing learning.
>
> By the end of this class, participants will be able to:
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> - define the stages in the collaborative problem solving process
>
> - identify methods of decision making and when to use each
> - identify and use tools for generating ideas
>
> - identify and use tools for prioritizing ideas
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> - design effective meeting agendas
> - write specific goals for each agenda item
> - keep a discussion on track
> - track action items from meetings
>
> This course introduces a model for collaborative problem solving and several tools to help groups solve problems and make effective decisions and is targeted to individuals who wish to improve the meetings they attend or lead. Group activities during class will give participants the opportunity to work with the tools presented. Several issues related to group problem solving and decision making are explored and tips and techniques are offered to make group work more effective.
