Chairing Successful Meetings

The purpose of this guide is to provide an easy-to-use consultation manual on deliberative meeting procedures that is adapted to the new requirements of the field. It consists of about one hundred rules grouped according to the chronology of a meeting: preparation, beginning, middle and end.

These rules are presented in the form of articles numbered consecutively and include supplementary comments, an index and a summary table of the rules. This guide also includes two appendices: a method for filing documents related to deliberative meetings and a description of the functions and structure of meeting minutes.