As you have learned, facilitating a productive meeting requires skills that may be critical to your career success.
Individually or as a team describe how you would deal with the following examples of unproductive or dysfunctional behavior and other challenges in a team meeting that you are running. Either report your recommendations verbally, or, if your instructor directs, summarize your suggestions in an e-mail or memo.
a. Jimmy, a well-known office clown, is telling off-color jokes while others are discussing the business at hand.
b. Anna is quiet, although she is taking notes and seems to be following the discussion attentively.
c. Peter likes to make long-winded statements and often digresses to unrelated subjects.
d. Carla keeps interrupting other speakers and dominates the discussion.
e. Ron and Mark are hostile toward each other and clash over an agenda item.
f. Elena arrives 15 minutes late and noisily unpacks her briefcase.
g. Kristen, Shelley, and Paul are reading e-mails and texting under the table.
h. The meeting time is up, but the group has not met the objective of the meeting.