Business and Administration

There are good meetings and there are bad meetings. Bad meetings drone on forever, you never seem to get to the point, and you leave wondering why you were even present. Effective ones leave you energized and feeling that you've really accomplished something. So what makes a meeting effective? Effective meetings really boil down to three things.   1.They achieve the meeting's objective. 2.They take up a minimum amount of time. 3.They leave participants feeling that a sensible process has been followed.   If you structure your meeting planning, preparation, execution, and follow up around these three basic criteria, the result will be an effective meeting.   1. The Meeting's Objective   An effective meeting serves a useful purpose. This means that in it, you achieve a desired outcome. For a meeting to meet this outcome, or objective, you have to be clear about what it is. Too often, people call a meeting to discuss something withou