How to increase productivity at your business meeting.

Business meetings can easily become repetitive and unproductive. Below are 5 tips to help increase efficiency and productivity in your meeting.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1. Consider who you are inviting to your meeting. If people are not participating and providing input, they probably don't need to be there.

2. Your meeting should always start and end on time. Allowing employees to schedule accordingly.

3. Ban cell phones, pda's etc... Attention should be focused on the agenda.

4. Make sure everyone knows the agenda and comes prepared to provide input.

5. After the meeting, review the high points, assign tasks and schedule a follow up meeting.

[PearlsWisdom]

on 2/1/2009 Excellent tips...so simple, but so often overlooked.

[Hapworth]

on 8/13/2008 The cell phone can be really annoying.

[krazigirl79]

on 8/13/2008 Always an important aspect to remember- without the organization business meetings can lose their purpose or get jumbled with other small talk.

[Cherst1031]

on 8/13/2008 Good guidelines to make productive use of these meetings.

[MIghtyDreamer]

on 8/13/2008 Cool sensible ideas