From the course: Building Your Team
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Tips for successful team meetings
From the course: Building Your Team
Tips for successful team meetings
- You know, like it or not, meetings play an important part in your team's development. If it's true that opportunity plus preparation equals success, then how you prepare for meetings contributes a great deal to their success or failure. Successful meetings are opportunities for attendees to share key data, brainstorm, problem solve, and build relationships. In unproductive meetings, team members feel their time is wasted, the stated agenda is not efficiently followed, they aren't included, or that important members are absent. A failed meeting was obviously the inspiration for this message on a coffee cup: "I survived another meeting that should have been an email." To avoid negative feedback, it's important to understand how to facilitate an effective meeting. First, start with a clear objective or objectives. This is a purpose goal or target you want to reach. Make sure you can succinctly answer…
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