-By Nancy Settle-Murphy. Ground rules are a lot easier to enforce when you can make eye contact or use body language to keep people in line. But when you can’t see people and can’t hear what people are doing on the other end of the line, it’s much harder to keep people focused and on track.
Every group has implied ground rules. Ask people about the “way they do business around here.” Often these loosely developed habits have a tendency to create mundane, ineffective meetings that do not achieve their goals.
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I don’t understand how these rules are unique to the “new generation.” But they are great rules for pretty much any group of people at any meeting.
Call them what you will – meeting norms, team agreements, rules of engagement, or conditions for success – when it comes to effective meetings, it’s necessary to set up a few ground rules before you get started.
Get a basic guide to conducting effective meetings on this page from the Free Management Library.
Ground rules are statements of values and guidelines which a group establishes consciously to help individual members to decide how to act. To be effective, ground rules must be clear, consistent, agreed-to, and followed.
1. Everything said in the group is confidential. What happens here, stays here. 2. Please do not share with anyone the names or stories you learn outside this room.
If you want your team to be effective, you need meeting ground rules — and you need agreement about how to use them. Many teams that have ground rules …
