<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>FYI,</div><div><br></div><div>Suzanne L. Sager<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> Don Wood <<a href="mailto:dwood@ala.org">dwood@ala.org</a>><br><b>Date:</b> October 2, 2015 at 11:52:51 AM PDT<br><b>To:</b> "<a href="mailto:alacro-l@lists.ala.org">alacro-l@lists.ala.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:alacro-l@lists.ala.org">alacro-l@lists.ala.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>[alacro-l] “We’ve Got to Stop Meeting Like This: Making Meetings Work": at MW 2016: Sponsored by the ALA Training, Orientation and Leadership Development (TOLD) committee</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> Don Wood <<a href="mailto:dwood@ala.org">dwood@ala.org</a>><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Please spread the word about this leadership opportunity at the 2016 ALA Midwinter Meeting. Deadline is November 15.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Below is an invitation to a leadership development opportunity sponsored by the ALA Training, Orientation and Leadership Development (TOLD) committee.
<b>It is specifically designed for officers, board members and committee chair in ALA divisions, round tables and chapters</b>. This program is and will be held during the ALA 2016 Midwinter Meeting in Boston, MA.<b>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">“<i>We’ve Got to Stop Meeting Like This...” Making Meetings Work</i></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A special workshop for volunteer and staff leaders of ALA Divisions, Chapters, and Round Tables.</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Description:</span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Are your meetings lengthy and slow moving? Is too much time taken up by assertive members, to the exclusion of others? Do things become unraveled at the first sign of disagreement? Do members
get bogged down in arguments about Robert’s Rules of Order?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If you responded with Yes to any of these questions, make sure to attend this special workshop for division, round table, and chapter leaders. In it, Eli Mina, ALA Parliamentarian, will discuss
the core principles of debate and decision making, tools to make meetings well focused, well-paced, and equally inclusive, and tips on how to address tough situations and controversies during meetings. Eli will also demystify key issues with rules of order,
and help you use them sensibly and intelligently.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Each participant will receive a copy of Eli Mina’s book “<i>101 Boardroom Problems and How to Solve Them”</i> and “<i>Mina’s Guide to Minute Taking”.</i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Date & time</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Friday January 8, 2016, 1 - 2:30 p.m.
<b><u>Location</u>:</b> TBD</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Instructor</span></u></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Eli Mina is a Vancouver based consultant who specializes in meeting procedures, effective group decision making, and dealing with disputes and controversies. Eli’s clients come from local government,
school boards, regulatory boards, native communities, law firms, credit unions, and the non-profit sector. Eli has served as ALA’s Parliamentarian since the end of 2002. He is the author of five published books and many articles on his areas of expertise.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We expect high levels of interest, so please confirm your attendance before November 15, 2015 by filling out the following form:
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WN37BXS"><span style="color:blue">https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WN37BXS</span></a> .
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For questions, send an email to Lorelle Swader at
</span><a href="mailto:lswader@ala.org"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext">lswader@ala.org</span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Gary W. White</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Chair</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Don Wood<br>
Program Officer<br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/cro/index.cfm"><span style="color:blue">Chapter Relations Office</span></a><br>
American Library Association<br>
50 East Huron Street<br>
Chicago, IL 60611<br>
<a href="mailto:dwood@ala.org"><span style="color:blue">dwood@ala.org</span></a><br>
1-800-545-2433, ext. 2429; 312-280-2429<br>
312-280-4392 (fax)<br>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/ALAChapters"><span style="color:blue">Become a Fan of ALA Chapters</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><a href="http://twitter.com/ALA_CRO"><span style="color:blue">Follow CRO on Twitter</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><a href="http://cqrcengage.com/ala/home"><span style="color:blue">Take Action for America’s Libraries</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”—Albert Schweitzer</span></p>
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