Do meetings in your school ever look like this?
  • No coordination:  Everybody is going off in different directions.
  • Personal Attack:  Individuals, rather than concepts, are often attacked.
  • Unclear responsibilities:   Who is supposed to be doing what?
  • Manipulation:  Meetings are just rubber-stamps of what the administration already decided.
  • Overload:  Too many ideas are in your head at one time.
  • Wheel spinning:  The same old ideas are repeated.
  • Vagueness of purpose:   Why are we having this meeting anyway?
  • Question of authority:  Do we have the power to make this decision?
  • Personality conflicts:  Lack of openness & trust, underlying tensions.
  • Poor environment:  Small, stuffy room; can't hear; can't see; uncomfortable chairs.
  • Win/Lose Approach:  Polarization, low commitment, low morale.
  • Rushed feeling:  Poor time management; always late.
  • Grandstanding:  A few people do all of the talking, and not always on the topic.
  • No follow up:  After the meetings nobody seems to do anything.
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