This document discusses tips for making meetings more effective and productive. It recommends preparing an agenda with important topics to discuss, sending the agenda to attendees beforehand, and having a moderator control discussions and keep them on track. Meetings should start and end on time to avoid stressing attendees and wasting their time. The overall goals of good meetings are to generate new ideas, share knowledge, strengthen collaboration, and improve the company. Bad meetings can cause stress, be seen as a waste of time, and increase tensions between team members.

1. My Five Minutes Bell
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Developing Management Skills.

2. What are the meetings useful for?
❖ A good meeting must be productive.
❖ Should come up with new ideas to
fix or improve something in company.
❖ Should be a space to share knowledge.
❖ Meeting strengthen collaboration and bonds.

3. Consequences of a bad meeting
❖ A bad meeting could become into source of stress.
❖ Team can consider meetings as a waste of time.
❖ Can generate tension between members of the
team and therefore arguments.

4. Tips for a better Meeting
❖ Prepare a list of topics will be
discussed arranged according to
importance and their goals.
❖ This list must be sent to everyone
who is attending to meeting so
they can prepare for the topics.

5. Importance of agenda
❖ This is very important, because that way everybody
knows what will be discussed so the topic do not go
far from the main topics and do not become a waste
of time for not relevant topics.

6. Tips for a better Meeting
❖ There must be a moderator.
❖ They control time, people and the time everyone takes
to comment, so it doesn’t turn boring or goes far from
the main topic.
❖ A moderador can keep everything under control (avoid
arguments) and focused.

7. Tips for a better Meeting
❖ Start and finish on time.
❖ Something stressing about meetings is when they start
late and therefore need to finish late.
❖ This is stressing and make all members of the meeting
change their plans for later, specially when meetings are
arranged after working time.

8. References
❖ Hewitt L., (2018), Five Tips for Effective Meetings, Press Gold Group.
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effective-meetings/
❖ Fobres, (2014), Seven Steps to Running the Most Effective Meeting
Possible, Forbes.
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most-effective-meeting-possible/#1159b0477a61