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Business Meetings and Rules of Parliamentary Procedure

As a student leader, it is important to ensure that your club’s meetings help accomplish your group’s goals. Below are some recent resources for conducting effective meetings. Some are printed books that you may borrow from the Penn State library system; others you may read or watch online.

• How to Management Meetings
• How to Run a Meeting
  
• Making Meetings Work: How to Get Started, Get Going, and Get It Done 
• Meetings Handbook: Formal Rules and Informal Processes
  
• Participation for All: A Guide to Legislative
• Complete Idiot’s Guide to Robert’s Rules 
  
• Running Meetings: Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges
  
• Successful Meetings: How to Plan, Prepare, and Execute Top-Notch Business Meetings 

Videos from YouTube

• “How to Conduct a Meeting: The Role of Chair” 
  
• “How to Conduct a Meeting: Bad Practices”
  

Videos From Education in Video Database

• “Effective Meetings: Influencing Others”
  
• “Effective Meetings: Making Your Voice Heard”
  
• “Effective Team Meetings”
  
• “Meetings”
  

Rules of Procedure

Some organizations, especially large ones, use formal “rules of order” or “rules of parliamentary procedure” to ensure fairness as ideas are presented, discussed, revised, and voted upon. Robert’s Rules of Order is the most commonly used manual, but there are others, including the Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure (also called “Sturgis,” after its original author), Cannon’s, and more.

Robert's Rules of Order

• Robert’s Rules of Order Online
• Robert's rules of order, newly revised, in brief: Updated in accord with the eleventh edition of the complete manual.
• Robert’s Rules of Order, Newly Revised, 11^th edition
• Robert’s Rules of Order, Newly Revised, in Brief, 2^nd edition

Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure ("Sturgis")

• Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure

Cannon's Rules of Order

• Cannon’s Concise Guide to Rules of Order