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86 results for "C. Alan Jennings, PRP"
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Robert's Rules: Getting Comfortable with Parliamentary Procedure
Parliamentary procedure refers to the practices used in meetings to keep things orderly and give everybody a fair chance to be heard for at least as long as it takes for everybody to realize that nothing [more…]
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Robert's Rules: Interpreting Bylaws
Your bylaws belong to your group, and only your group can decide what they mean. Sure, a parliamentarian can help you understand the technical meaning of a phrase or a section here and there. But when [more…]
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The Role of Bylaws under Robert's Rules
Under Robert's Rules — or any set of parliamentary rules — your group's bylaws comprise the fundamental rules that define your organization. Your bylaws should include all the rules your group determines [more…]
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Robert's Rules Bylaws Checklist
A basic set of bylaws often isn't enough. Even if you use Robert's Rules as your authority, there are plenty of things that you just can't do unless you make provisions for them in your bylaws. [more…]
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The Robert's Rules Process for Handling a Main Motion
When it comes to handling a main motion, Robert's Rules streamlines the process and saves your group a lot of time. Using the following eight steps to consider ideas brought to the group in a systematic [more…]
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Robert's Rules for Appealing a Ruling by the Chair
Even the most highly studied, best prepared, and popular presiding officer with a deep knowledge of Robert's Rules can make mistakes. When one of those mistakes involves a ruling on a matter of parliamentary [more…]
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Robert's Rules for Making Nominations
Your organization needs officers, maybe committee members, and other positions decided by a vote of the membership. Robert's Rules sets out several methods of making nominations for positions: [more…]
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Robert's Rules and the Previous Question Motion
How often have you come home from a meeting exhausted because you listened to the same points made over and over again? Robert's Rules has a solution: the previous question subsidiary motion. Although [more…]
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Robert's Rules for Adjourning a Meeting
Who doesn't love to hear, "I declare the meeting adjourned!"? The Robert's Rules motion for adjourning a meeting is simple but essential for almost every meeting. [more…]
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Making and Handling Motions Following Robert's Rules
In an organization that's following Robert's Rules, when that light bulb goes off in your head and you have a great idea, you make a motion to get your idea discussed and a decision made. Here are the [more…]
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Twelve Robert's Rules Meeting Procedure Myths
Most members and presiding officers really do have an interest in conducting business according to Robert’s Rules. The real trouble is that, more often than not, they’ve never actually [more…]
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The Principles of Parliamentary Procedure according to Robert's Rules
Parliamentary procedure refers to the practices used in meetings to keep things orderly and give everybody a fair chance to be heard. Robert's Rules is generally regarded as the [more…]
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Necessary Bylaws according to Robert's Rules
Any organization using Robert's Rules needs bylaws to define the organization and spell out members' rights. Your bylaws may have more articles than the basic list provided by Robert's Rules. [more…]
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How to Relax Robert's Rules
Some types of meeting are better suited to a not-so-strict enforcement of Robert's Rules of Order. If your group needs to consider an issue that calls for a more freewheeling discussion than close attendance [more…]
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Robert's Rules for Defining Debatable Motions
Much of the business of a group isn't debatable and therefore doesn't come under Robert's Rules for debate. After all, you don't need to debate whether to approve the minutes from the last meeting; you [more…]
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Robert's Rules on Dilatory and Improper Motions
The purpose of Robert's Rules (and parliamentary procedure in general) is to facilitate the transaction of business and to achieve the deliberate will of the majority after giving the minority a full hearing [more…]
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Robert's Rules for Assigning the Floor
Knowing that members control decisions but the chair controls the floor is at the heart of successful presiding with Robert's Rules. Early in a discussion, the situation is pretty clear. Members rise and [more…]
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Robert's Rules for Voting by Ballot
Ballot voting is the preferred voting method in situations in which knowing how all the members voted isn't desirable. You can use a ballot vote to decide either a motion or an election: [more…]
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Robert's Rules on Absentee Voting
A fundamental principle of parliamentary law, and Robert's Rules, is that decisions are made only by the members present in a properly called meeting at which a quorum is present. However, sometimes you [more…]
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Using Robert's Rules: The Presiding Officer’s Script
The best presiding officers plan ahead. With an agenda and knowledge of the business at hand before the meeting, a plan can turn into a script like the following example that following Robert's Rules and [more…]
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Ten Robert's Rules to Customize
If your organization has adopted Robert’s Rules as its parliamentary authority, you’ve got a good rule for just about anything that comes up. However, Robert’s Rules doesn’t try to be one-size-fits-all [more…]
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Raise a Question of Privilege with Robert's Rules
More often than not, the motion to Raise a Question of Privilege is made to solve some immediate problem of particular and immediate annoyance to the group. But this motion covers other situations, too [more…]
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Robert's Rules and Division of the Question
You can use the incidental motion Division of the Question when a single motion is made that proposes several different actions, each of which could stand alone as a separate motion. [more…]
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Robert's Rules: Using an Agenda to Produce Better Meetings
It's 7 p.m. on Tuesday night. You're attending the regular monthly meeting of your neighborhood association. Your president, Prissy Gardner (who was elected because nobody else wanted the job), is ready [more…]
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Robert's Rules for Making a Motion: Mistakes to Avoid
Robert's Rules are designed to facilitate the transaction of business by your group, not to hinder it. If you're going to be effective in meetings, you need to know the right — and wrong — ways to use [more…]
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