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Keeping Team Meetings Vibrant
Meetings can be the life-blood of an organisation or the death.
It all depends how you approach them.
People need to communicate ? that's a fact, and it's not enough to do it over computers. At some point a face-to-face is needed to ensure full understanding on key items, and there's a bonding and rapport between colleagues that is often taken for granted.
But for something so important to the operational health of an organisation why do so many meetings produce negative feelings and little in the way of results? Why do people keep going to meetings that they know will be a waste of time? Surely there must be a solution to meeting madness?
The key is to involve people and encourage sharing ideas and building on possible solutions. When you set up the meeting so that every individual feels valued and involved then you can only succeed. When the Chairman produces the agenda and assumes that this is the central focus for the meeting you are likely to alienate attendees.
At one blue-chip company they resolved this problem by asking everyone to bring their 'personal unwritten agenda' to the meeting for discussion. The result was that everyone felt involved and began working for the higher purpose and not their own personal needs and concerns.
It is possible!
We've put together an e-book containing many ideas and tips to keep your meetings relevant, productive and vibrant. It contains the following:
1. Introduction
2. Getting people involved
3. Information frames for facilitators
4. Twenty simple tips to make meetings work
5. 'Yes, but' exercise
6. Ideas for jazzing up your meeting space
Team e-books can be found at www.quadrant1.co.uk/teams.php
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