Posts Tagged ‘Organizing’

Planning your Meetings

September 8th, 2008

Top down view of a well-run meeting on a light wooden table. Four colleagues' hands are visible either holding writing implements or with their laptop or tablet in front of them. The table is also laden with post-it notes, coffee cups and printouts of graphs and tables. Image at Offices.net.Love em or hate em, face to face meetings are still a necessary evil even in this digital/cyber/online world. People still need to get together and discuss issues, make decisions or just to get their point across. It’s important not to waste company time with unnecessary, long and boring meetings, which sometimes just seem like an excuse for the key speaker to yak on and listen to the sound of their own voice. Yes, their Mom may have told them they are fabulous, but we don’t all need to hear everything they have to say.

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