Do you want to increase the effectiveness of your meetings?When was the last time you attended a GOOD meeting? Learn how to plan, prepare and create effective meetings.

1. Learn How to Have
Effective Meetings
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2. Effective Meetings Require
Proper Planning
● How many bad meetings have you attended and/or conducted?
● Do you ever wonder whether you belong at a particular meeting
or not?
● Do you discuss the same issues concerns, people, and customers
month after month?
● How do you measure if a meeting is successful?
If these questions remind you of the meetings you have conducted
and attended then you have some planning to do. Scheduling
frequent, well planned, meetings can help an organization become
more effective!

3. Effective Meetings Focus On
Decisions
How many bad meetings have you attended
and/or conducted?
To improve the effectiveness of your meetings, first
think about the decisions and outcomes you want to
derive from the meetings, and then work backwards.
Read More Here:
http://www.activategroupinc.
com/2014/06/effective-meetings-focus-
decisions/

4. Effective Meetings Start on Time
Running Late or Miss a Meeting? That May
Cost You!
Every time you reschedule, cancel, miss, or are
late to a meeting, you generate direct and/or
indirect costs and build a negative personal
brand.
Read More Here:
http://www.activategroupinc.
com/2014/06/effective-meetings-start-
time/

5. Effective Meetings Require Time
Are you spending enough time with
your leadership teams?
The key is a commitment to setting aside enough
time. A good schedule:
● Daily Huddle - Synchronize 10 minutes a day
with your direct team
● Weekly Meeting – 1 hour per week to
improve execution
● Monthly Meeting – 1 full day to drive work on
the business and improve the leadership
team
● Quarterly Meeting – 2 full days (1 day is
Strategic) - Recalibrate for the Next Quarter
Read More Here: http://www.
activategroupinc.com/2014/06/effective-
meetings-require-time/

6. Effective Meetings
Require a Purpose
Did You Define a Purpose?
Name the meeting based on that purpose. By
doing so...the agenda and who needs to be at the
meeting becomes clear.
Read More Here: http://www.activategroupinc.
com/2014/06/effective-meetings-require-purpose/

7. Effective Meetings Have Conflict
Conflict is Healthy!
A good leading indicator that something important
is being discussed is that there are different
opinions, some conflict, and most of all people are
engaged in the discussion.
If most of your meetings occur with little debate
and no discomfort, you probably are having
ineffective meetings.
Read More Here: http://www.activategroupinc.
com/2014/06/effective-meetings-conflict/