Pages

Friday, 24 October 2014

4 Powerful Ways to avoid "Tea Biscuit meetings"


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.
Infograph : Four Powerful ways to avoid "Tea Biscuit Meetings"

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:

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.