{"id":388,"date":"2020-01-01T15:46:46","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T15:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/?p=388"},"modified":"2020-06-26T18:44:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T18:44:37","slug":"sources-on-how-to-chair-meetings-and-develop-agendas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juliericowilliamson.com\/blog\/sources-on-how-to-chair-meetings-and-develop-agendas\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources On How to Chair Meetings and Develop Agendas"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve spent a lot a time lately thinking about how to improve my abilities as a meeting chair and facilitator of boardroom-style discussions. I have had some great discussions with trusted colleagues and mentors, thank you to everyone who’s given me their time and thoughts. I’ve also been reading some interesting sources:<\/p>\n

How to Be a Better Meeting Chairman<\/a> – It might be an older article, but the advice is as relevant as ever. Harvard Business Review, 1969, Limited Number of Articles Available Free with Login.<\/address>\n
Making Things Happen<\/a> – Focused on project management, but with a lot of insights into modern organisations (author Scott Berkun has extensive experience at Microsoft). Book available widely, list price $39.99.<\/address>\n
How to Win Friends and Influence People<\/a> – Unfairly teased as a self help book, it’s amazingly relevant and practical. A classic text which I enjoyed as an audio book<\/a>, and the voice of Andrew MacMillan was fabulous.<\/address>\n
My recent experiences have really put me to the test, including chairing my first meeting as the SIGCHI VP for Publications and chairing a discussion at the ACM Publications Board on the Policy for Name Changes in the Digital Library. <\/address>\n

The former was challenging because ACM publications are currently undergoing significant changes, and organising a productive meeting on this topic and establishing an infrastructure to ease these changes has not been trivial.  The latter was challenging because there are competing needs on this issue, and I knew that there would be passionately opposed viewpoints around the table.   I found facilitating this discussion was also challenging because of my own strong opinions (in favour of a liberal name change policy) and my position as a comparatively junior member of the board.<\/p>\n

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