Gerry McMahon is an acknowledged national expert in People Management. He has over 35 years’ experience - as a workplace investigator (on bullying/harassment/ disciplinary/dismissal/grievance issues), trainer, negotiator, facilitator, mediator, arbitrator and team builder - across a wide range of employment sectors. He is the M.D. of the H.R. training and advisory company Productive Personnel Ltd.
Gerry has also had an extensive range of books and articles published and been a columnist with the Industrial Relations News, Irish Times, Sunday Business Post, and Irish Independent and expert commentator on H.R./Employee Relations for R.T.E. and TV3/Virgin. He has also served on numerous Legal Island and C.I.P.D. judging panels and is a Council member of the Irish Association for Industrial Relations.
Contact: Tel. 087-2471415; E-Mail: ppl1gerry@gmail.com
John Cleese of ‘Fawlty Towers’ fame put it well, when he succinctly named one of his earliest training films ‘Meetings Bloody Meetings’!Too often meetings take on a life of their own, being time consuming, badly planned and occasionally fractious, thus prompting the question: ‘What the hell am I doing here?’.
Whether ‘in person’ or online, we all have to attend meetings. In an ideal world, these meetings should help to:
- Make decisions and introduce new policies/practices.
- Inform and involve people, whilst sharing problems and agreeing solutions.
- Enable discussion, get opinions and feedback and change knowledge, skills and attitudes.
- Persuade, inspire and motivate attendees.
- Resolve conflicts and improve team spirit.
The bottom line is that the success of an organisation
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