OD Network Theory & Practice Series

OD Network Theory & Practice Series Leading Meetings that Matter

Leading Meetings that Matter Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff

Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There! Ten Principles For Leading Meetings That Matter

Leading Meetings that Matter Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff have led meetings for decades all over the world. They co-direct the Future Search Network, an international non-profit (NGO) dedicated to offering collaborative planning services in any language, any culture, for whatever people can afford. They are co-authors of Future Search: An Action Guide, 2nd Edition (2000). They have trained more than 3000 people in using their principles. They are members of the European Institute for Transnational Studies and the Organization Development Network.

Leading Meetings that Matter Marvin Weisbord was a professional consultant with business firms and medical schools from 1969 to 1992. He is a fellow of the World Academy of Productivity Science and for 20 years was a partner in the firm Block Petrella Weisbord, Inc. and a member of NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004 from the Organization Development Network which voted his book Productive Workplaces (1987) among the five most influential books of the past 40 years. He also is author of Organizational Diagnosis (1978), Discovering Common Ground (1992), and Productive Workplaces Revisited (2004).

Leading Meetings that Matter Sandra Janoff, a psychologist and consultant, has worked with corporations, government agencies, and communities worldwide on issues of globalization, sustainability, and humane practices. She was a staff member in Tavistock conferences sponsored by Temple University in Philadelphia and The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in Oxford, England. She also has run training workshops in Systems-Oriented group dynamics. Sandra taught mathematics, physics and chemistry from 1974 to 1984 in an experimental high school and ran workshops in Pennsylvania schools on alternative practices in education. She is co-author with Yvonne Agazarian of "Systems Thinking and Small Groups" for the Comprehensive Textbook of Group Psychotherapy. Her research on the relationship between moral reasoning and legal education was a lead article in the University of Minnesota Law Review.

Leading Meetings that Matter What Lead Us ToThis Book • Non-stop Change • More Diversity Than Ever

Leading Meetings that Matter Why People Hate Meetings • Wrong People in the Room • Not Enough Time Together • Bogged Down in Differences

Leading Meetings that Matter TEN PRINCIPLES

Leading Meetings that Matter Part One: Leading Meetings • Get the Whole System in the Room 2. Control What You Can, Let Go What You Can’t 3. Explore the “Whole Elephant” 4. Let People Be Responsible 5. Find Common Ground 6. Master the Art of Subgrouping

Leading Meetings that Matter Part Two: Managing Yourself 7. Make Friends with Anxiety 8. Get Used to Projections 9. Be a Dependable Authority 10. Learn to Say “No” If You Want “Yes” to Mean Something

Leading Meetings that Matter Principle #1 Get the Whole System in the Room

Leading Meetings that Matter Principle #2 Control What You Can, Let Go What You Can't

Leading Meetings that Matter Principle #3 Explore the Whole elephant

Leading Meetings that Matter Principle #4 Let People Be Responsible

Leading Meetings that Matter Principle #5 Find Common Ground

Leading Meetings that Matter Principle #6 Master the Art of Subgrouping

Leading Meetings that Matter Principle #7 Make Friends with Anxiety

Leading Meetings that Matter Principle #8 Get Used to Projections

Leading Meetings that Matter Principle #9 Be A Dependable Authority

Leading Meetings that Matter Principle #10 Learn to Say "No" If you Want "Yes" to Mean Something

Leading Meetings that Matter Changing the World One Meeting at a Time

Leading Meetings that Matter Thank you for joining us! Contact the authors: mweisbord@futuresearch.net sjanoff@futuresearch.net www.futuresearch.net

Leading Meetings that Matter

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