1. What is meeting? Two or more people come together for the purpose of discussing a predetermined topic such as business or community event often on formal setting. Conference call E-meeting

2. When to call a meeting? Necessary Definite purpose Cost effectiveness Brainstorming

4. Work meeting

5. Staff meeting

6. Team meeting

7. One on one meeting

8. Management meeting

9. Board meeting

10. Kick off meeting

11. Pre bid meeting

14. The exact place & date

16. The issues to be discussed and resolved

18. Follow the plan : Follow the plan of the meeting item by item. Move the discussion along : Here goal should be to permit complete discussion on the one hand and to avoid repetition , excessive details and useless comments on the other hands. Move along the agendas

19. Control those who talks too much : Here objective should be to let people talk as long as they are contributing to the goal of the meeting. Encourage participation from those who talk too little : Encourage these people to participate by asking them for their view points and by showing respect for their comments. Control time: When time is limited discussion on agendas point are to be keep with in time frame.

20. Summarize at appropriate places : Main goal should be to summarize is agendas after discussion and recording of conclusion before moving on to the next agendas point. At the end of the meeting a formal minutes of meeting is to be drawn up.

22. Decision Minutes

23. Sample :-

24. Where and when the meeting was held

25. The names of people who attended it

26. Apologies from people who were expected to attend but could not

27. The decisions taken along with who should implement them and by when

30. Failure to maintain minutes

31. Incompetent chairpersons

32. Cunning chairpersons

33. Bosses

34. Spineless managers

35. Meeting- Hungry bosses

36. Hidden Agendas and shadow boxing

37. Bloated committees

39. Don’t interrupt when others talk

40. Don’t monopolize the meeting

41. Don’t talk or joke with your neighbors

42. Don’t use the phone

43. Don’t do anything unrelated to the discussion

44. Don’t use excessively emotional language

45. Don’t disobey the chairperson’s instructions and Requests