Meetings play very crucial roles for the organization.
Meetings sometime can be for general discussion, sometimes for SWOT analysis,
sometimes for big decision. Practically many meetings go useless. After being
on the receiving end of the complaints of many experienced managers I have
decided to coin these useless meeting as “Tea Biscuit meetings”.
For better
understanding let’s divide meetings into two parts.
i)
Purpose :
Be sure about the purpose of calling or
attending meeting. Sometimes deviating from main topic is good to fill out the
boredom and breaking ices but getting too much indulged in out of context topics
is just a waste of time and resources.
I was once told that in one of so-called
managerial meetings all eight participants talked about their foreign trips and
at the end of session they decided to hold the further discussions and
postponed the discussion of real agendas.
Does that ring any bell? Do you remember
any useless meeting you have attended? Please share the worst “tea biscuit
meeting” you have attended in comment box below.
ii) Impact:
ii) Impact:
Impact is the result you have devoted your
whole preparations for, from the initial phase to the end of meeting. Results
can be in various forms; it can be in the form of approvals, finalization of
contracts, appointments and appraisals etcetera.