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MEETINGS
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Language for leading and participating
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Strategies for improved communication
● Negotiating strategies
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Speaking practice / role plays
Six Thinking
Hats
This
discussion strategy helps to deal with complex or controversial topics. It helps
to eliminate pointless
repetition and to prevent more powerful members from dominating
the discussion. It also
helps to prevent good ideas from being destroyed by negative thinking.
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PARTICIPATING IN DISCUSSIONS
Participants learn the
proper way to:
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enter a discussion,
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express opinions versus facts,
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agree and disagree with other opinions,
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put forward proposals,
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react to other proposals,
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interrupt in an acceptable way,
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block interruptions,
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check for undersanding,
and
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get clarification when necessary.
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LEADING DISCUSSIONS
Participants learn
language
strategies with which to:
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open the discussion,
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keep the discussion going,
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move to another agenda point,
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stay on topic,
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control the time,
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summarize at critical points,
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summarize at the end,
and
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thank everybody and bring the discussion to a close.
Balancing Advocacy
and Inquiry
This
is a strategy to diminish the western-style competitive attitude that
conflicts with the cultural styles of many non-western nations. It
focuses on inviting feedback about your own ideas while inquiring more
about the ideas of other people.
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