Lead, negotiate, speak! Join us tomorrow at 4 pm for a Toastmasters Demo Meeting. Inspire and engage your employees. Business essentially boils down to communication. Join us tomorrow, Jan 17th, at 4 pm

Hermetas wishes everyone a happy holiday season. Posted from my blog with SteemPress :

Preamble We, the students of California Community Colleges, in order to promote and safeguard access for current and future students to California public higher education in accordance with the Master

Hermetas will be presenting at the CCCSAA Student Leadership Conference in Las Angeles this weekend. For more information about CCCSAA please visit: Posted from my blog with SteemPress :

The Presiding Officer Restates the Motion to the Assembly Foto: Magnus Frderberg/norden.org You will now hear the motion a second time (Once when the member first stated the motion and again when the Chair

Another member seconds the motion. The rights of the minority vs the rights of the majority are balanced by Robert's Rules. The seconding of a motion prevents one person from making motions that no one

A member stands up, is recognized, and makes a motion. Waiting may be the most difficult... yet most important part of group decision making (i.e. meetings). Step 1: A member of an organization who wants

Committees can be a way to formally draw together people of relevant expertise from different parts of an organization who otherwise would not have a good way to share information and coordinate actions.

The best part of a terrible meeting: The End! <figure id="2d1b" class="graf graf--figure graf-after--p"> </figure> The highest ranking motion in Robert’s Rules of Order

Every meeting is important. It is an opportunity to change. Change may be difficult, but it is often necessary. A wise group will look into the future and predict likely problems. This allows them to change

Hermetas is putting together a video series. Please submit questions to [email protected] or comment below. Thank you in advance!Posted from my blog with SteemPress :

The backwardness of Student Governance has always amazed me. An officer being absent half of her meetings is not grounds for removal because some one in the audience yells “Due Process!!!” while rolling

Just for when you’re thinking I can do it all on my own…. The biggest problem is that you don’t know what you don’t know. Hermetas is run by experts of student government. They’ve all been there. As an

Lovea Jones wrote, “There is validity in everyone’s voice. What makes one more effect and effective than the others? A simple person can speak with just as much force and influence than a learned person.

I think I'm in love with Steem, but like most of my relationships it's overly complicated and frought with unnessary suffering. Why is it so hard to write a post. Why is it so hard to use a picture? Why

Brown Got You Down?? Are you being accused of violating the Brown Act by someone who is using it to bully you into inaction? Consider whether the alleged violation is legitimate. If you do not believe

You vs They Robert’s Rules outlines the process whereby groups make decisions and take action. It is not the process whereby you make decisions and take action. There is only a brief moment where the motion

Hermes, the messenger of the Gods and Veritas, truth, were wed and Hermetas was born... OK maybe not. Our name, 'Hermetas' is a compounding of Hermes, the messenger, and Veritas, Truth. Truth in Communications