Effective Meetings

One of the biggest complaints about most organizations is meetings...they waste too much of our precious time. This is bad news for organizations. Meetings are important because that is where an organization’s culture and climate perpetuates itself. Meetings are one of the ways that an organization tells its workers, “You are a member.” If you have bad, boring, and time wasting meetings, then the people begin to believe that this is a bad and boring company that does not care about time. Likewise, great meetings tell the workers, “This is a great organization to be working for!” Also, remember that bad meetings lead to more bad meetings which cost even more money.

Why are there so many bad meetings? Poor planning by the meeting’s organizer and a lack of involvement by the participants. Many people have devoted a lot of time to making meetings work. They have developed some ground rules which can help you to get more out of meetings, in less time, and, often, with less stress.

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