How to conduct a meeting - Bad Practices

In this article, I would like to focus on bad practises sharing and discuss the real cost of bad meeting.

Bad practises

Ineffective meeting may be caused by either meeting leader or meeting attendees. There are two videos and we can learn how different roles impact a meeting.

Attendees - bad practises include:

·         Talking out of turn

·         Talking about each other

·         Aggressive behaviour

·         Lack of preparation

·         Mobile Device

 

Meeting Leader - bad practises include:

·         Starting late

·         Do not follow agenda

·         Losing control

·         Treating meeting carelessly

·         No listening or focusing on others' opinions

 

Cost of ineffective meeting

According below link, meeting are a multi-billion dollar drain on global economy every year. Bad meetings frustrate people, diminish productivity, reduce the bottom line, and negative affect the corporate culture. As a finance manager in a global company, over 50% of my working time are used in meeting, including team meeting, cross-functional meeting, regular finance review meeting, performance review with staff or manager, supplier meeting, and all kinds of project meeting. I feel very tired and I think most of meeting wasted my time but I have to attend because I wonder I will miss important information if I don't attend. Somtimes, the meeting covers multiple sections but invite people to attend the whole meeting which also waste people's time. You can learn more about the real cost of ineffective meeting which impel us to think about how to stop the ineffective meeting and save million cost for our companies. The Real Cost of Bad Meetings