The document discusses various topics related to planning meetings and decision making in groups. It addresses criteria to consider when making invitation decisions, different types of group tasks and the best leadership styles for each, and challenges that can arise in group discussions like biases. It also provides tips for effective listening and strategies for creating agendas and facilitating productive meetings.

2.  Planning
 The Issue
 Structure
 Information
 Listening

3.  Invitation decisions often create a dilemma
 What criteria should we consider?
 Expertise
 Motivation
 Politics
 Time
 Differences
 Potential disagreements
 Diversity
 Expense
 Resources

4.  Fact
 Value
 Policy

5.  Definition
 Cause

7. “Everybody lies, search the house.” – House M.D.

8.  How much order?
 How much time?
 How many people?
 Emotion involvment?
 Nature of the task?

9.  Know your members.
 How detailed and organized do instructions
need to be for them to thrive?
 How much autonomy do they need?

11.  Use a calendar. Use doodle. Contact participants.
 Find a length that gets the job done.
 Find a length that helps people remember.

13.  When its high:
 Longer
 Painful
 More conflict
 Need for references to policy

14.  Difficulty
 Solution multiplicity
 Intrinsic group interest
 Cooperation requirements
 Population interest
(Hirokawa, 1990)

15.  With fewer potential solutions a directive leader is best.
 With many possible solutions a nondirective leader thrives.
 The less interesting the task the more control members ‘want.’

16.  Primary Research
 Interviews
 Surveys
 Direct Observation
 Secondary Research
 Library
 Electronic Search

17. Where to begin?
Literature Review
Question(s)
Domain
Scope
Resources ex. Articles, film, text, sites.

19.  Interviews
 Surveys
 Direct Observation
 Experiments

20. Correlation does not imply causation.
Do Ice-cream Sales cause Pirate Attacks?

21.  Hypothesizing after the results are known.
 “Texas Sharp Shooter Fallacy”

22.  “Angry birds fly; therefore, all birds fly.”
 The darkest side of stereotyping.
=
Ooops…

23.  Availability Bias
 Listen to this list and try to remember
everything you hear.

25.  Group Competition: Get to the other side
without touch or going under the fence.
 If you touch the whole team goes back.
(You must also recite the alphabet allowed in unison before starting again.)
 First team to have all members on the ground
on the greener side wins. Please shout ‘donzo.’
 Group listening will be very important here.

26. "When people talk, listen completely.
Most people never listen."
— Ernest Hemingway

27.  Components of Listening
 Listening Problems
 Tips and Tricks

28.  Sensing
 Attending
 Understanding
 Remembering

29.  Problems with Sensing
 Problems with Attending
 Selective Perception and Attending
 Poor Attending Habits
 Interference by Attitudes
 Low Intensity Messages
 Poor Length
 Difficulty Understanding
 Inability to Empathize
 Lack of feedback
 Mental Sets
 Poor Memory
Here are a few demonstrated.

30. (Adapted from Tony Buzan, 1983)

31.  Paraphrase
 Double-check
 Empathize
 Practice

32.  Create a MS Word document of an agenda (red)
for one of your group meetings and include
notes on what actually happened (blue).
 Identify the type of meeting (1) and the parent
format (2) of the agenda you used.
▪ When complete, save your document to your Gmail account
and mark the document as public or viewable by link.
▪ Paste this link in the Facebook group to achieve your point.

33. "No man ever listened himself out of a job."
— Calvin Coolidge

35.  Don’t forget to read for next class and
complete your online assignment for points.
 Also send any questions you or your group
have and I will focus on answering them.