Robert's Rules for Dummies - Paperback

by C. Alan Jennings (Author)

All in favor of improving meeting procedures, say Aye!

Trying to keep your in-person and virtual meetings on track and running smoothly? You need Robert's Rules of Order! These rules for conducting meetings have stood the test of time as the gold standard for practical and effective procedure in group settings like corporate and nonprofit boards, councils, and more. And there's no better way to learn the latest version of the rules than with Robert's Rules For Dummies.

This handy guide demystifies the Rules and offers readers a practical roadmap to applying efficient procedures to everything from conducting online and in-person meetings to voting by email. It also:

• Contains brand-new, updated content on the latest 12th Edition of Robert's Rules
• Offers sample meeting agendas, minutes, scripts, and other material to show you how the pros keep meeting records
• Walks you through the basic--and not so basic--ways to nominate and elect officers and directors in organizations

Ideal for board members, convention delegates, business owners, nonprofit executives, and anyone else trying to maintain an orderly flow of business--online or in person--Robert's Rules For Dummies is a need-to-read resource that will make you wonder how you ever survived without it.

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Bring order and productivity to meetings

If you're looking for time-tested and effective ways to keep your next online or offline meeting on track, you need the newest edition of Robert's Rules For Dummies. It's a straightforward discussion in plain English of the newest version of Robert's Rules of Order, a proven parliamentary procedure authority that will keep any board or council meeting on-point and productive. Find out how to bring motions, debate ideas, maintain decorum, make group decisions, elect leaders, work with committees, and more as you explore this practical procedural road map to constructive meetings.

Inside...

• Participate effectively in meetings
• Create and amend bylaws
• Draft and adopt an agenda
• Avoid common missteps
• Deal with questions of procedure
• Debate ideas
• Nominate and elect leaders
• Improve your virtual meetings

Author Biography

C. Alan Jennings, PRP, is a Professional Registered Parliamentarian credentialed by the National Association of Parliamentarians. He is a past President of the Louisiana Association of Parliamentarians and a member of the American Institute of Parliamentarians.