Chapter 10. Leadership by Supporting and Empowering Participation

GOALS

  • learn ways to lead and encourage more participative meetings

  • use leadership skills to improve the quality of thinking in organizations

  • lead by monitoring and nurturing the knowledge required for team performance

We all have attended meetings that were disorganized, poorly led, boring, and therefore unproductive. We walk away feeling that our time has been wasted. The meeting leader, we may feel, is largely to blame for the failure of the meeting. The leader could have distributed an orderly agenda, directed the traffic of discussion, focused the attention of the group on its goals, and taken other steps to ensure a meaningful meeting. We may also blame the meeting participants. ...

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