How to Hold Effective Team Meetings

Many people believe that they conduct effective meetings, when all they really do is
host a Party. Or worse, they deliver a monologue. In either case, their meetings
produces little.

How to Hold Effective Team Meetings

How to Hold Effective Team Meetings

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How to Hold Effective Team Meetings

How to Hold Effective Team Meetings

Here's how to hold an effective staff meetings.

1) In general. Keep them short. Most staff meetings should last less than an hour.
You want your staff to spend their time working on things that earn money for your
business, not sitting in meetings. Keep them positive. Negative meetings contain
insults, ridicule, and attacks. These activities create caution and .resentMent, which
always costs your company money. Keep them interactive. Your staff consists of
intelligent people. Put them to work in your meetings to advance the effectiveness
of yourorganization.

2) Share news. Give the members of your group one minute to report on progress
made in their area of responsibility. You'll find that this results in bullet point
reports of essential information. It also prevents people from philosophizing,
explaining, justifying, criticizing, and engaging in other unproductive activities. Plan
a time budget: 8 to 10 minutes.

3) Teach something. Invite a guest expert to give a 10 minute presentation on some
skill or technology that benefits your group. Tell the expert that you want a logical
explanation of practical ideas. You can also ask members of your group to take
turns delivering brief tutorials on topics that benefit the others. Plan a time budget:
10 to 15 minutes.

How to Hold Effective Team Meetings