Most agendas for a meeting look like this.
Effective Meetings Have SMART Goals
The first step in planning an agenda is to identify the goals for the meeting. Properly done, goals have five S M A R T characteristics. They are:
Effective Meetings Begin With a Goal
Goals are critically important for the success of a meeting. You must know what you want so you can ask for it. And the participants need to know what you want so they can help you get it. Without goals, a meeting becomes a journey without a destination.
Effective Meetings Earn a Profit
Most people treat meetings as a free resource that can be used to deal with any issue. As a result, huge amounts of time and money are wasted on trivia.
Developing Efficient Meetings
How would you describe meetings you have attended in the past?
How To Encourage Your Team’s Ideas At Meetings
You’re at a meeting with key staff. You want some new ideas to address the topic.
Looking around at this group of creative, ambitious, bright people, you say, “Let’s get some fresh ideas on this. Who’s got something?”
How to Run Meetings with Muscle
Imagine yourself running a meeting where everyone participates, discussion is on topic, and the agenda is covered before the planned ending time. Attendees leave energized and with a sense of accomplishment. You hear comments such as, “I love these meetings!” And you walk away knowing your time was well-spent.
Vampire Meetings and How To Slay Them
Meetings can be like mythical vampires – sucking the life out of intelligent and creative people. And sucking the funds out of businesses. Unfortunately, there are too many of these meetings in business today.
Six Keys to More Powerful Sales Meetings : Plan Conclusions that Get Action
To achieve maximum value from your next sales meeting, prepare the ending first.
Throughout history, great leaders have inspired others to action by preparing, then delivering carefully constructed conclusions to speeches. Lincoln’s, “Government of the people, by the people, for the people . . . ,” Patrick Henry’s, “Give me liberty or give me death,” and John Kennedy’s, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” are a few examples.
How to Make Your Meetings Fun!
If you want people to be creative, innovative, and flexible, it helps to make your meetings fun. Here are three examples.