Growing your business, you are required to conduct regular meetings with your team to monitor how your business is going. Meetings are also required to address some issues going on in your business. However, lots of people now view meetings as ineffective activity for a business since everything can be delivered via online. Meetings are often viewed as time-wasting. There are business goers who avoid meetings and choose to do others works that need to be done.
Effective meetings to grow business
Meetings are inefficient or ineffective because of many factors such as wrong timing, wrong attendees, etc. Meetings are not pointless. In fact, they are important thing to do to solve problems, highlight new approaches, delegate tasks, and many more. So how to make meetings more effective and bring benefit for your business growth?
Plan significant preparations required to have effective meetings. Too many meetings can lead to time wasting, therefore, you have to focus on making the meetings as efficient as possible. Preparing things required for meetings can save time. You can also prepare and distribute preset agenda beforehand so everyone involved will be more ready. Also, you have to prepare for the follow-up actions.
Make sure that meetings have clear goals to achieve. Goalless meetings are only wasting your time and energy. You should know the goal and the topics to discuss for the meeting. A meeting needs a plan. You should also include necessary documents as well as information to be distributed ahead of time. This way, all the attendees are also informed clearly and properly before the meeting.
Every meeting should have a person who is assigned to keep things on track. Therefore, you will know where to go to follow-up after the meeting. This can also help you to be more organized with the meeting goals. You can also assign someone as facilitator or leader for the meeting. It does not always have to be you who lead the meeting. You can assign someone you trust or is considered capable to frame the purpose of the meeting, ensure the time track of the meeting, etc.
Meetings can be done in so many ways especially with how advanced technology has been today. You can have a conference calls to conduct a meeting pr open group chat if the topic is less urgent. However, it is always best to have a face-to-face meeting. This can avoid you or others to be distracted such as from text, email, etc. Face-to-face meeting allows you and others to be more focused of the topic of discussion. Therefore, your meeting can be considered successful.
Set the limit of the meeting so it won’t stretch out unnecessarily. Time limit is important especially when you have multiples meetings to attend to in a day. Limiting time can also avoid unnecessary discussion that is out of the topic during the meeting. A single meeting can be scheduled for 15 to 30 minutes. This considered efficient to address issue and get it solved without wasting more time.
