5 important guidelines for committee members for achieving effective results

5 important guidelines for committee members to achieve effective results are:

For the committee to achieve effective results, and for the members to reach consensus, some guidelines are given by Jay Hall.

These are:

1. The members must make sure that the atmosphere at the committee meetings relaxed and informal.

2. Each member takes active role in the discussion and states his position clearly and logically. He also listens to any reaction calmly and gives counter viewpoints, if any.

3. A member should not compromise, simply to achieve harmony. Disagreements should not be ignored, but resolved. Criticism should be directed at the issues and not at persons.

4. Make sure that the group leader is not excessively dominating his views should not be considered as final. While the leader is responsible for properly directing the trend of the discussion, his views should be treated in the same manner as any other member’s views.

5. Members must make sure that disagreements should not be on personalities, but only opinions. These disagreements should not continue after the meeting on personal grounds, otherwise these will not only be socially destructive put can lead to unnecessary disagreements with the same persons at the future meetings.

Also, within die committee meeting deliberations, a spirit of competition should be avoided and a spirit of cooperation should be enhanced. Studies have shown that group members who have been motivated to cooperate show more positive responses to each other, are more favourable in their perceptions, are more involved in the task and have greater satisfaction with the task.