How much do you enjoy going to meetings? In my view meetings can be the second biggest time-waster after email. I’m sure you’ve been in a meeting where it seemed there was no clear point, no end in sight or where no decisions were made. Maybe you’ve got a meeting like that today. Anyway, despite our regular participation in meetings day after day, it amazes me how poorly organized and managed they can often be.
We put up with much and seem to apply little of what we have learned when it comes to our turn to call a meeting. So here I am sharing a few of my golden rules for meetings in the hope that they inspire some more productive meetings down the track…