Description This one-of-a-kind book challenges nonprofit leaders (and anyonewho runs meetings) to retire Robert's Rules of Order and adopt asimpler, friendlier, and more effective method for conductingmeetings--Roberta's Rules of Order.
Using traditionalsailing ships as a metaphor, meetings and governance expert Alice Collier Cochran helps groups make the journey from the shore thatrepresents the culture of Robert's Rules--procedural formality, debate, simple majority rule--to the opposite shore of Roberta'sRules--informality, dialogue, and decision-making options.
? Indoing so, she helps them to conduct friendlier, more effectivemeetings and to take the first step toward creating flexible, democratic organizations.
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com/publish/templates/?a=375&z=25About the author Alice Collier Cochran, an independent consultant, conducts workshops on Roberta's Rules of Order for nonprofit management support organizations such as Board Source, Compass Point, and Marin Nexus in California.
She has been a member of the board of the San Francisco chapters of the American Society for Training and Development, the Bay Area Organization Development Network, and the local Guild of the International Association of Facilitators.
Jossey-bass Roberta's rules of order: sail through meetings for stellar results without the gavel: a guide for nonprofits and other teams, paperback/alice collier cochran
