Deck 7: Organizational Management: How to Run a Meeting and Decision Making

Question 1

What is the purpose of meetings?

A) To have conversation about the latest situation at work
B) To reprimand poor performance of the team
C) To problem solve, share information, make decisions
D) To keep email inbox from becoming cluttered with information sharing

Answer 1

C

Question 2

By confirming the meeting participant's agreement to the meeting goals, objectives, and agenda, the meeting facilitator

A) knows the outcome of every decision
B) has a roadmap and engaged everyone to proceed in the same direction
C) can adjourn the meeting 20 min. early
D) can guarantee that quorum is present

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Who determines the method for the team to make decisions?

A) The stakeholders
B) The whole team
C) The senior leadership
D) The leader

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Decision making requires participants to be able to ________________ .

A) prepare a defense for their idea
B) engage in discussion to forecast each possible solution
C) recruit others to their way of thinking
D) vote

Question 5

What are: 1) Who cares? 2) Who knows? 3) Who must agree? 4) How many people should be involved?

A) Questions the leader asks when setting meeting agendas.
B) Questions the leader asks when organizing data.
C) Questions the leader asks when deciding decision-making process.
D) Questions the leader asks when determining who should be invited to the meeting.

Question 6

Meeting planners many times fail to attend to participant needs treating it as their personal gathering.

Question 7

Meeting participants are always loyal to new leaders.

Question 8

There is a downward trend in the organizations' ability to gather all stakeholders for the decision-making process.

Question 9

In a meeting agenda, old business follows new business.

Question 10

A common failure in decision making is not inviting all the stakeholders to the meeting.

Question 11

Decision making is one of many important actions a group can take.

Question 12

The stakeholders determine the decision-making process.

Question 13

Explain three benefits of having a recorder at a meeting.

Question 14

How do process and expedient thinkers approach a meeting differently.

Question 15

What are meeting ground rules, what do they accomplish, and give an example.

Question 16

What are the benefits of using the Memory Jogger version of Brain writing?

Question 17

What are the benefits of using an Affinity Diagram?

Question 18

What are the benefits of using nominal group techniques?

Question 19

What are the benefits of using cause and effect?

Question 20

From your meeting experiences, write an explanation for preventing the following two meeting challenges.
a. Lack of clarity of meeting outcomes
b. Inability to make decisions

Question 21

Describe with details two behaviors you will employ to enable meeting participants to have an effective meeting.

Question 22

Explain the four basic methods of decision making.

Question 23

Using a Fishbone Diagram, label at least four "ribs" that would represent key considerations in selecting a restaurant for you and your friends to enjoy.