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Faizan
Does anybody choose meetings?
Meetings - you either enjoy them or dislike them. They seem a fundamental evil to many. Whether board meetings or any other company meetings. If you enquire if they are necessary the response is likely to be, 'certainly'. Are they beneficial - most might say, 'Never'. This attitude would seem to suggest that it's not the purpose but the composition of effective meetings and how they are handled which can really annoy people.
Do you recognize someone that complains about meetings? Finds them a total waste of time? Perhaps, if it is your role to arrange and run a meeting you might even approach this with a level of trepidation and an increase in stress.
Do you have a strategy?
It is unusual for a meeting to have no agenda in the slightest. The initial item on the agenda, particularly the very first in a set of meetings, ought to be an outline of your meeting strategy. This will determine what you hope to achieve from the meeting, how you want to conduct it and your hopes of those at the meeting. Therefore, in summary you may want to address:
Do you have a goal:
What is the objective of the meeting? Clearness here will spare a lot of distress when dealing with the meeting.
How often do you want meetings?
State the frequency of a string of meetings and assess suggestions from individuals attending. Don't forget, meetings use up time.
What is the output?
Define what you hope to be the end products from the meeting. For instance, what will be the structure of the minutes of meetings and any actions that they might include? This is a very good time to prompt people that they will be accountable for actions that they receive. If these are not done in a prompt manner it could impact other people at the meeting.
Meetings - you either enjoy them or dislike them. They seem a fundamental evil to many. Whether board meetings or any other company meetings. If you enquire if they are necessary the response is likely to be, 'certainly'. Are they beneficial - most might say, 'Never'. This attitude would seem to suggest that it's not the purpose but the composition of effective meetings and how they are handled which can really annoy people.
Do you recognize someone that complains about meetings? Finds them a total waste of time? Perhaps, if it is your role to arrange and run a meeting you might even approach this with a level of trepidation and an increase in stress.
Do you have a strategy?
It is unusual for a meeting to have no agenda in the slightest. The initial item on the agenda, particularly the very first in a set of meetings, ought to be an outline of your meeting strategy. This will determine what you hope to achieve from the meeting, how you want to conduct it and your hopes of those at the meeting. Therefore, in summary you may want to address:
Do you have a goal:
What is the objective of the meeting? Clearness here will spare a lot of distress when dealing with the meeting.
How often do you want meetings?
State the frequency of a string of meetings and assess suggestions from individuals attending. Don't forget, meetings use up time.
What is the output?
Define what you hope to be the end products from the meeting. For instance, what will be the structure of the minutes of meetings and any actions that they might include? This is a very good time to prompt people that they will be accountable for actions that they receive. If these are not done in a prompt manner it could impact other people at the meeting.
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