"It was the best of times. It was the worst of times." When he said this, Charles Dickens might well have been talking about meetings! After attending or facilitating thousands of meetings, I've seen it all. I've also learned strategies to make meetings more productive and bring more profits.
I've seen sales, profit and customer satisfaction increase. I've witnessed more engaged associates, less employee turnover and safer and more productive workplaces. I've watched morale soar. I've even heard a speaker's catch phrase repeated routinely throughout an organization five years after his speech. That's the sunny side of meetings.
I've also heard meetings described as ".... an interaction where the unwilling selected from the uniformed, led by the unsuitable, to discuss the unnecessary, are required to write a report about the unimportant." Yikes! I'm an optimist. I'm not cynical; not a whiner and I look for solutions, not problems. But you should hear what comes out of my mouth after some meetings.
I've seen sales, profit and customer satisfaction increase. I've witnessed more engaged associates, less employee turnover and safer and more productive workplaces. I've watched morale soar. I've even heard a speaker's catch phrase repeated routinely throughout an organization five years after his speech. That's the sunny side of meetings.
I've also heard meetings described as ".... an interaction where the unwilling selected from the uniformed, led by the unsuitable, to discuss the unnecessary, are required to write a report about the unimportant." Yikes! I'm an optimist. I'm not cynical; not a whiner and I look for solutions, not problems. But you should hear what comes out of my mouth after some meetings.