Effective Meetings
It indicates that the Club Effectiveness, which met for the mere sake of meeting or because the meeting is in the calendar is usually a waste of time. Perhaps the greatest danger is institutionalized in a group meeting. We met because it is our custom, or because it appeared in the list of tasks, including in the chart. Not surprisingly, express opinions like these is a total waste of time. Calls to anyone and are the right people are not even informed. “” He should start for 30 minutes, we will certainly not on time. Why do not you stick to the topic rather than discussing irrelevant details or issues? If we speak together, we do not understand. “” I told you, three hours together for nothing.
Does that conclusion get reached? “The worst about disaffection about the meetings is that people keep these feelings instead of expressing and generates negative attitudes that affect other areas of your work and your life. It should be very careful in the purpose of the meetings, these really should be so well defined objective, rationale and proper selection of those who participate in it, to show them on the topic to discuss, motivate them to participate and ensure a good driving motivation, effective communication was reached favorable results, should be making these are highly productive.
It reminds us of many people: have never experienced or thought about the power that can have a highly effective meeting, therefore not recognize the importance of these. Have a great resistance to changing practice are inefficient and therefore seems more appropriate to continue as before. Do not have received training, tools, or methodologies to make your meetings effective events. are filled with tasks and meetings, they have no time to complete basic tasks: Who has the time and energy to improve the efficiency of your meetings? and meanwhile they will much of their productive time. Add Olmos: Our experience with working groups of leading companies is that when people respond to these questions, we are able to avoid many meetings that were not really necessary.
“In a meeting, every minute, multiply by the number of participants from the same” this is the cost of the meeting, but what those people could have been doing if they had not Same state. Very valid remark, that to attain productivity in the meeting, is that “Share Plan and the plan of the meeting alone will bring greater efficiency to the development of the meeting, while he created the enabling environment to assess the time and resources invested in them. Experience shows that the meetings are conducted take much less time and fewer meetings are required to achieve the objectives. The meetings become highly participatory and motivating events. Take into account the views of Olmus when he says that the meetings have become a daily activity and growing in the work of professionals today. But many business leaders do not give importance to this issue and have no interest in changing unproductive habits.
As demonstrated by multiple studies, this issue is not only instrumental in the development organization, but is directly related to the financial performance of companies. Definitely a well-planned meeting, endorsed the precise information, with the support of a good conductor, capable of motivational incentives for participation, mean that these are highly productive.