Committee-itis – a light-hearted look at the pitfalls and pleasures of sitting on a committee
Committee-itis - a light-hearted look at the pitfalls and pleasures of sitting on a committee
Despite the best intentions of its members, a committee can easily fall victim to the dreaded committee-itis virus.
This illness can invade the body of a committee – or the body of a member of a committee. This book examines a wide range of committees – including kindergartens, schools, youth groups, body corporates, workplaces, communities, community organisations.
Do any of these symptoms sound familiar?
- debilitated decision-making
- anaesthetised into dozing patterns
- assuming thoughtful poses to camouflage confusion
- offering lengthy explanations lacking common sense
- over-committee’d
Fortunately, preventative medicine is available. Hilariously tongue-in-cheek, Committee-itis offers suggestions to strengthen your committee’s immune system against such infections as rash decisions, outbreaks of resistance, fatigue or street.
Committee-itis de-mystifies committee dynamics and procedures, offers diagnoses and examines a range of remedies and survival strategies. It then moves on to explain various infection-avoidance techniques. (Co-authored with Hazel Edwards)
Contents
Introduction to Committee-itis
What is this plague-like problem?
And the environment that attracts this virus?
Chapter 1 – Symptoms – What is it?
Chapter 2 – Diagnosis – How to recognise it
Chapter 3 – Remedies – How to deal with it once you recognise it
Chapter 4 – Virus avoidance
Chapter 5 – Scenarios and Activities
Chapter 6 – How to’s
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