Collaborative
- In Collaborative Through defending your positions, reframing ideas, listening to other viewpoints and articulating your points, learners will gain a more complete understanding as a group than they could as individuals
- (Actually working in group)
Cooperative
- Cooperative learning:
Participants are responsible for a specific section of their own learning and success, and also that of the group as a whole. Each member is responsible for learning new information and skills, and at the same time, assisting teammates in learning.
- (working as individual, then coming together as group)
Five key elements of cooperative learning
- Positive interdependence
- Individual and group accountability
- Interpersonal and small group skills
- Face-to-face interaction
- Group processing
- Gaining leadership and decision-making skills
- Acquiring conflict management skills
- Increases employee/student work engagement
- Enhancing communication skills
- Personal responsibility
- Gaining confidence
- Positive attitude towards colleagues
- Turns learning into a truly active process
- Promotes learning from others viewpoints
- Teaches how to think critically and quickly
- Promotes listening to criticism and advice
- Develops public speaking and active listening skills 6. Improves cooperation
Meetings
The gathering of a group of people, for a controlled discussion with a specific purpose.
Essential Elements of a Meeting
A purpose
Agenda
Members and roles
Result
Report
Purpose
- : problem-solving, idea gathering, training etc
The list of points to be discussed
The chaiperson, the secretary and the other members
The outcome of the process
Ususlly the minutes
Minutes
Meeting minutes are notes taken of discussions and decisions made during meetings. In informal settings, meeting notes are taken to provide a record of the discussion for future reference. In more formal settings, for example, for board meetings, minutes are taken and kept on file as legal documents
- An agenda is a list of meeting activities (Items) in the order in which they are to be taken up, beginning with the call to order and ending with adjournment.
To second
- to give support or encouragement to…
A motion
- A motion is a proposal that is put before a meeting for discussion and a decision. If a motion is passed, it becomes a resolution. Resolutions are binding and should be recorded in the minutes of the meeting. An association's rules will outline how motions should be dealt with.
Unanimouslx
Without opposition with the agreement of all people involved
Consensus
- Consensus decision-making requires individual participation and encourages open communication. It is designed to benefit all parties and not ignore anyone’s opinions or ideas. In a consensus meeting, participants make a decision once everyone present has come to agree with the rest of the group.
Item
- An Item means a specified matter listed on the agenda
AOB
- AOB meaning: any other business. - used at the end of a list of things to be discussed in a business meeting to indicate that new topics may be introduced. Appears on the meeting minutes as well - Summarizes anything important that has been said after the initial items.
- Casting vote
- an extra vote given by a chairperson to decide an issue when the votes on each side are equal.
Proposal
- an act of putting forward or stating something for consideration within a meeting.
Adjourn
- break off (a meeting, legal case, or game) with the intention of resuming it later.
- The outcome.
- Whether it needs to take place at all.
- Decide and arrange, accordingly, the logistics - when and where the meeting should take place.
- Clearly communicate the goal of the meeting with expected outcomes itemized.
- Produce a clear, specific agenda and distribute to all attendees well in advance.
- Carefully consider who really needs to be at the meeting- and for how long.
- Include start and finish times on the agenda.
- Ensure that someone takes the minutes of the meeting.
- basic information (location, names, date, start and end time)
- the topic and the person responsible for it
- an objective for each item, or for the meeting in general
Information Sharing Meetings
Status Update Meetings
Decision-Making Meetings
Problem solving meetings
Innovation meeting
Team building meetings
Online meetings
- (Presentations, keynotes, lectures, panel debates, Upcoming changes, new products and techniques, or in depth knowledge of a domain. Visual communication tools, (making the shared information more memorable.)
- Status Update Meetings
- one of the most common meeting types, regular team and project meetings, to align the team via updates on progress, challenges, and next steps, milestones. Problem-solving, decision-making, prioritization, and task assignment.
- Decision-Making Meetings
- information gathering and sharing, brainstorming solutions, evaluating options, ranking preferences, Voting, scoring Delphi method (allows for the modification of ideas over time)
- Problem-Solving Meetings
Scopes and priorities need to be defined Opportunities and threats need to be identified Possible solutions should be brainstormed, evaluated, and agreed upon.
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