Posts Tagged planning a meeting

How many of you have been in a meeting and start thinking to yourself, “Ughh, This is such a waste of my time!”, while drawing fanciful doodles of bunny rabbits parachuting out of airplanes or in a meeting mumbling to yourself  “I wish John was here. He would do a much better job at explaining this than I can.”  I know we have all been there and done that at some point in our careers. Now the question is, what can we do to prevent this and have more productive meetings when it’s our turn to serve up a hot plate o’ meeting and you’re the one asking who should be there?

If you don’t already know meetings are very expensive activities considering the cost of labor and how much can or cannot get done in them.  Therefore it is important that serious time and consideration is put into making sure the right people are in the room. Read the rest of this entry »