Umiker's Management Skills For The New Health Care Supervisor | 7th Edition

Chapter 32

1. Why should there be a separate recorder appointed for a meeting? Why not have the chairperson fulfill this function and thus keep down the number of essential attendees?

2. Why should we not seat antagonists facing each other across a conference table?

4. What is one form of meeting for which it is appropriate to expect everyone present to actively participate? And one form of meeting where little or no attendee participation is expected?

6. When you are convening a meeting, why not make your position, opinion, or recommendation clear at the outset to let attendees know where you stand? Why are so many regularly scheduled meetings wasteful and inefficient?

7. Why are so many regularly scheduled meeting wasteful and inefficient?