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Monday 30 March 2020

Office meetings

Meetings are necessary for proper functioning of any organisation. Meeting is where communications are made; agendas are discussed; ideas are exchanged and strategies are planned.
Meeting is where you seek attention and leave an impression. It's where you have hours of discussion before agreeing upon the decision that has already been taken. Father it's a platform where you can put your soft skills on full display and a place where you can go someone to death and still get applauded.

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Conducting a meeting is not difficult; what is tough is to make it fruitful.
Staff meetings are vital for problem solving. Eating shows employees are following standard operating procedure. It helps managers to keep their figure on the pulse of the office which again is absolutely important. 
If you are calling meetings frequently then you are exposing your poor management skills to the staff. As for the meetings the staff has to abort working.
Lots of variables that influence in a meeting when it isn't planned properly and the ultimate outcome is unwanted time consumption and meeting lasting for prolonged duration.
Due to zero productivity you have to face hatred and you will lose all the respect because no single person is pleased when his or her time is taken up needlessly.
You have to be in right frame of mind to attend a meeting. Otherwise it will only reason in annoyance. Meetings called at short notice the preview of opportunity to Psych yourself up for what follows. Most of the unschedule meetings take place after hours does proving more nuisance than anything else.
A meeting without agenda is also fruitless. It has no form, no meaning. All conductors of such kind of agenda listening meeting mess around pointlessly while attendees keep chit chatting. Objective is one of the most be tested things about the meeting.
Its never a good feeling when you realize the meeting could have well been conducted in your absence. It is hard to stand for such kind of things. 
Always remember that there is solution or remedy for everything except death. You cannot dispense with meetings. So you have to find out solution for fruitful meetings.
Always try to avoid the above-mentioned practices and make everyone to believe that meetings are not at all a waste of time or energy.
Whatever may be the agenda of your meeting or whatever may be the serious situation to be discussed introduce some humour which will relax all the attendees. 
You can start with some funny joke or incident. This will breaths new life into participants. 
Take the follow up of previous meeting customarily.
Never call a meeting for informational a directional purposes that means agenda of the meeting should be of discussing on something very important. You can collect information individually from your staff or direct them in the same way.
Do not repeat the things which you have already conveyed or discussed previously.
Involve all the attendants so that they will remain attentive.
Keep your speech and presentation short and to the point.
Always have a line of agenda while speaking so that the meeting doesn't lose its course.
Prevent all the interruptions so that you will get less disturbances during the meeting and no one will get frustrated.
To avoid disturbances you must avoid taking phone calls and visitors during the meeting period. Lesser the disturbances more will be the time saved and fruitful will be the meeting.
If you are calling a meeting and at the last minute you cancel it should be avoided. Avoid cancellation of the meeting.
Also after they gather do not wait your staff.
Keep informed all the members in advance and before inviting consider all the things carefully.
If your meeting last for an hour or so you have to feed all the attendants with healthy snacks.
Conclude your meeting with and attitude having some positive results in your hand. This practice will encourage all the attendants.
You need not satisfy everyone but you should be satisfied with a fruitful output in your meeting.

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