Rude Guild Members/Need Help
#111
Originally Posted by sweet
Maybe it might help if you told them at the beginning of the meeting what you expect from them.
I agree. You should always start any meeting with ground rules. If you have to, resort to calling them out after giving them an opportunity to follow the rules. I have seen a great decline in manners generally in the last few years.
#114
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Oklahoma
Posts: 95
I think at the begining of the meeting they need to ask everyone for their complete attention and to please respect other and please not talk during the meeting. Even if they have to do this several meetings maybe they will all get the hang of it. If I was a speaker and everyone kept talking I would just stop my speaking until they were all done. Then I would begin again. After several times of stopping they sometimes get the hint too.
#117
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: western NC
Posts: 175
Having taught school and later, as a trial lawyer, I learned to use my voice much more strongly than in normal conversation and to make eye contact with those listening. Using a weak voice will cause people to lose interest. Move around a bit while talking unless the room is big enough that it is necessary to use a microphone. Even then make eye contact. As for guest speakers the audience needs to be set straight by the program chair. Ours once said that unless one was on the waiting list for a life saving organ transplant, everyone should take out their cell phones and turn them off. Unless one is a CIA agent or a brain surgeon with a patient recently operated on what possible excuse would one have to leave that infernal cell phone on.
Jane
Jane
#119
At our staff meetings at the school where I teach, the principal takes a couple of minutes to review the meeting norms (no side conversations, start/end on time, etc) which are posted at each table. Each table also has a photograph of Norm from the old tv show Cheers. If someone at your table is breaking the meeting norms, someone will hold up the Norm puppet at the offender. It works wonderfully and meetings run smoothly now.
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