There are statistics about how companies lose valuable hours of work with completely unproductive meetings. Many times people go to them and do not know what purpose they serve.
At 43 Folders website give us 9 tips for running a productive meeting. In summary these tips are:
1. Circulate an agenda
2. Have a theme
3. Set (and honor) times for beginning, ending, and breaks
4. No electronic grazing. Period.
5. Schedule guests
6. Be a referee and employ a time-keeper
7. Stay on target
8. Follow up
9. Be consistent
About the four tip said:
4. No electronic grazing. Period. – Laptops closed. Phones off. Blackberries left back in the cube. You’re either at the meeting or you’re not at the meeting, and few things are more distracting or disruptive than the guy who has to check his damned email every five minutes. Schedule breaks for people to fiddle with their toys, but fearlessly enforce a no grazing rule once the meeting’s back in session. Emergency call to take or make? They have to leave the room. No exceptions. If you’re too busy to be at the meeting everyone else has made firewalled time for, just leave.
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You can read all of the 9 tips in 43 Folders website by clicking here in this link
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