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Satisfaction With Meetings (2 of 3) – Focus on the Outcomes
I attended a long distance meeting yesterday that serves as a starting point for how not to create a satisfying meeting experience. We started with introductions, but no stated agenda or defined outcome. We then proceeded to a discussion of the need for deliverables that had already been created… and top it all off, the leader conducted the meeting in a slow deliberate pace that had no evident sensitivity to the outside demands bearing down on each of the participants.
I bet that sounds like some of the meetings you attend. Not very satisfying are they? In fact I find myself getting frustrated and looking for a way to escape, take-over or multi-task on the side. I’m not very good at just being patient. I would bet that each one of us tends to use one or more of those four options to get through meetings on a daily basis.
Obtaining the Utmost Benefit with Trade Show Exhibits
Exhibition events mean a great opportunity for you company to get more customers that will eventually lead to greater benefit. With such importance, joining the event should be prepared and done well. One of the preparations that should be done is the presentation that will play as the first impression to get customer’s attention by the events. Selecting the best trade show exhibits can be a great help.
Satisfaction With Meetings (1 of 3) – Documentation Practices Reduce Meeting Length
Meetings are a necessary business function that help us collaborate and communicate important issues with our co-workers. They are part necessity, part plague. They can easily become immense time consumers without an equivalent value-add to the business. However, whether it’s part of our tribal DNA, or some other factor, we continue to hold meetings. In fact, meetings are the most common way people work together
Given that it appears meetings are here to stay, I’d like to cover in this and the subsequent two articles, 3 things you can do to increase satisfaction for meeting participants. As long as you are going to have them, you might as well get the most out of the experience. Right?
How to Make Meetings Not Suck
Have you ever noticed that most meetings are a waste of time? Not just the idle chatter, or the time spent waiting for attendees who are late, but the fact that they take longer than 20 minutes and fill your day with more noise, little of it relevant to your focus?
Here’s a handy guide for how to cure the Boardroom Blues, especially if you’re the one leading the meeting!
They Are Happy to Come to My Meetings! After an Effective Meeting
You have just held an effective meeting. CONGRATULATIONS!
You accomplished this by:
* Creating a clear objective with unambiguous criteria to measure success.
* You invited the right people. They each had something to contribute to achieving the objective.
* The logistics were well prepared.
* The agenda set appropriate expectations for the meeting.
* The announcement included “Preparation Required” which caused everyone to arrive at the meeting ready to contribute.
* The meeting started on time.
* You facilitated the meeting process so that the content was relevant; the people stayed focused on interacting with the content; and interacting with each other around the content. You maintained the pace so that you could reach the objective.
* The attendees did reach the objective and you proved it.
* You summarized the meeting so that everyone was on the same page as to what was accomplished, what decisions were made, the action items and responsibilities and any next steps.
* The meeting ended on time!
Everyone left with a feeling of accomplishment.