No matter what you do for a living, you are expected to participate in meetings. It doesn’t end at work, of course. You attend meetings at your church, civic organization, and volunteer project. For the most part, meetings are something we dread and endure. Dick and Emily Axelrod seek to provide a remedy in their book Let’s Stop Meeting Like This: Tools to Save Time and Get More Done . They present a practical model that is adaptable to all types of meetings. Their basic model is labeled The Meeting Canoe and involves six movements: Welcome people. Connect people to each other and the task. Discover the way things are. Elicit people’s dreams. Decide. Attend to the end. The model embodies not only good group process, but parallels the approach we in use in Dis ciple Development Coaching © at Pinnacle Leadership Associates: Ask and Listen (Welcome and Connect) Explore (Discover and Elicit) Design...
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