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Running Meetings

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how to cut 25% of our personnel costs in the next two

years . . .”), but you can at least advance your think-

ing and brainstorm options with the group. After the

meeting, you can assign the best options to individual

meeting participants so they can research the pro-

posed solutions further and present their thoughts at

a future gathering.

Making a decision

Decision-making meetings can be tricky since there’s

a fi ne line between encouraging people to feel that a

decision-making meeting is a collaborative wielding

of authority and actually making a fi nal choice that

may or may not have been the most popular option.

By virtue of having a meeting about making a deci-

sion, you are implicitly signaling to your team that

their opinion ...