Top 5 Tips for chairing meetings

• Make time for a pre-meeting with the minute taker and/or include the minute taker in any pre-meetings;
• Give everyone as much notice as possible to enable them to prepare effectively;
• Resolve any conflict quickly, assertively and without any humiliation to anyone;
• At the end of each piece of discussion, summarise what has been agreed and what, if any, actions are to be taken;
• Insert breaks into meetings over 2 hours, even if it is just 5 minutes, and even more so when the meeting is online.

@uomlib_penny @UoMLibrary @BakerThompsonAL that training really changed how I approach meetings - @lozbeard knows - more staff should do it

— Mike Kelly (@mikeliamkelly) August 9, 2016