How to Run Effective Meetings

John Cleese of ‘Fawlty Towers’ fame put it well, when he succinctly named one of his earliest training films ‘Meetings Bloody Meetings’!Too often meetings take on a life of their own, being time consuming, badly planned and occasionally fractious, thus prompting the question: ‘What the hell am I doing here?’.

Whether ‘in person’ or online, we all have to attend meetings. In an ideal world, these meetings should help to:

• Make decisions and introduce new policies/practices.
• Inform and involve people, whilst sharing problems and agreeing solutions.
• Enable discussion, get opinions and feedback and change knowledge, skills and attitudes.
• Persuade, inspire and motivate attendees.
• Resolve