For this week’s discussion board, please post a link to an article that applies to:

improving group collaboration
team building
dealing with meeting tension
other meeting-related topics
While I am flexible on these specifications, ideally, your selection should be:

somewhat recent (less than a year old)
applicable to the topics we have covered so far in Week 1, 2, or 3.
Once you have made a selection€¦

1. Write an abstract for the article.

2. Connect it to your individual experience.

a. How does the advice or observation apply in your life?

b. Does it help you resolve a meeting-related issue you are facing?

c. Give relevant examples.

3. Discuss how your selection relates to course materials.

a. Does Wilkinson, Cialdini, Shaffran (or other authors we’ve read) mention this topic?

b. Was it something I referenced in a lecture?

c. Cite your sources.

4. How did you find this article?

a. Did you discover it recently through a blog or social media?

b. Did a colleague recommend it to you?

5. Be sure to provide a link.

Initial responses should be about 400 words.

*Currently I’m a 12 year veteran police dispatcher with Jackson Police Department. I’ve had my fair share of meetings over the years and 75 percent of the meetings were somewhat all right and the other 25 percent were not so good. The only time I can really think of the meetings I’ve been in over the years its either something a dispatcher did or the chief of police was attempting to enforce rules on how the dispatch center should be ran or conducted in a timely fashion. To me those meetings were quite intimidating because this is a higher official who’s attempting to inflict rules on dispatchers in a forceful voice. Believe me, it was not good. The communications manager would have monthly meetings with each shift’s supervisor and talk about the ongoings inside the dispatch center as well. Each supervisor would talk about their shift, who’s not doing what, what should be done, what can we do to improve attendance and so forth. To me, it’s as if the dispatchers don’t really have a say so. There’s a lot of favoritism going on inside the center also. When our department has a meeting, it turns into a shouting match, certain dispatchers might be afraid to speak their minds inside the meeting but can rant on the dispatch floor about what the department is not doing to help improve the conditions and so forth.

*Please implement as much information as you can from my experience in meetings as a police dispatcher as possible*

Relate some of the information back to week one lecture was based on cliff shaffran’s style of meetings. During my week one lecture we talked about shaffran styles of meetings. How effective were they and so forth. During week 2 lecture we talked about Kopp’s Article American Japanese Meetings. If you can incorporate some of week one’s and week two’s lecture I would greatly appreciate it. During Kopp’s article: American Japanese meetings we discussed alot about the japanese meeting styles versus american meeting styles.