Friday evening will get you zero concentration and zero creativity. Monday morning at 9am people’s minds are still in sleep mode. I recommend distributing this information at least two days in advance of the meeting to ensure everyone can be ready.ĭon’t be one of those people who have a Monday morning 9am or Friday evening 5pm meeting! Do you want everyone to hate you? No? Ok, good!

Issue the obvious details, such as dates, times, and location, then attach the proposed agenda and let them know what it is you want them to prepare for the meeting. Communicate the agenda to your colleaguesĮmail or message your colleagues telling them about the meeting. Make out a checklist for the meeting, including all of the topics you want to discuss and how much time you need to spend on eachĢ. Planning and preparation goes a long way towards effective meetings. The bringing together of multiple ideas and perspectives can result in a more well-rounded and sophisticated strategy.įirst things first, if you want to hold a meeting you’ve got to sit down and write out what it is you want to discuss and what you want to resolve (i.e. My idea of a good business meeting consists of a few essential key people discussing an idea with a view to creating a plan of action for the future. People often forget what meetings are all about. For this reason, I am determined to help you not lose hours too. It was the biggest waste of time I’ve ever spent! I long for those three hours of my life back.

The meeting went on for three hours and there was still no plan of action for the future when they closed the meeting. There was no order, there was no clear agenda, there was nothing. I once sat at the back of a hall listening to four men trying to run a meeting. I think it’s safe to say that we’ve all sat in those meetings counting down the seconds, hoping something – anything – would happen to liven up the hour you’ve spent listening to some humdrum topic going around and around in circles.

The following will act as a guide for all of those people who suffer from awful meeting aliment. Though no matter the intention or goal, sometimes meetings are ineffective. Ever heard the expression two heads are better than one? Well, it’s true! Effective team meetings happen because you bring people together to discuss an idea or problem and the different perspectives and experiences of everyone in the room can help tackle the problem from multiple angles.

How does teams work for meetings