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Effective Committee Skills

Learn the essential components of committee structures and the vital roles of leaders, secretaries, and members to enhance productivity and collaboration. Develop crucial skills in communication, problem-solving, and decision-making within committees.

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Effective Committee Skills

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  1. Effective Committee Skills • Purpose of Committees: • Saves time for the larger group. • Allows individuals to be responsible for specific tasks. • Enables more detailed discussion or exploration of a topic.

  2. Effective Committee Skills • All committee structures have four common components: • A leader or chairperson. • A recorder or secretary. • Committee members. • Issues to be dealt with accordingly.

  3. Effective Committee Skills • The leader or chairperson: • Helps the committee to get acquainted. • Establishes and maintains an informal atmosphere. • States the issues or helps the committee state them. • Stimulates and directs the discussion towards the solution of the problem.

  4. Effective Committee Skills • The leader or chairperson (cont’d.): • Keeps the committee moving. • Promotes participation by all members. • Encourages the timid soul; discourages the monopolizer. • Stimulates thinking---sees that all sides of the question are heard.

  5. Effective Committee Skills • The leader or chairperson (cont’d.): • Helps the group check up on itself by using and assisting the secretary. • Summarizes when necessary. • Brings the group to a conclusion and to a plan of action.

  6. Effective Committee Skills • The secretary or recorder: • Keeps a record of the main problems, facts, and decisions brought out in the discussion. • Summarizes and reports at the end of the session or beginning of the next meeting. • Prepares a final committee report.

  7. Effective Committee Skills • A committee member: • Contributes ideas and suggestions pertaining to a given problem. • Assumes various leadership roles as the need arises. • Gives the committee the benefit of a given individual’s experience.

  8. Effective Committee Skills • A committee member (cont’d.): • Listens to what others say and respects their contributions. • Keeps “on the subject” with their comments. • Avoids monopolizing the discussion or the other extreme of saying nothing. • Cooperates with the group to solve a common problem.

  9. Effective Committee Skills • A committee member (cont’d.): • Keeps their own prejudices and their own personal aims from influencing other committee members. • Works with other members to help the group progress and to become a team.

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