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Running an effective huddle or meeting with your team will leave everyone energized and feeling that you've really accomplished something. So what makes a meeting effective?
According to experts, effective meetings boil down to three things:
1. They achieve the meeting's objective.
2. They take up a minimum amount of time.
3. They leave participants feeling that a sensible process has been followed.
If you structure your meeting planning, preparation, execution, and follow up around these three basic criteria, the result will be an effective meeting.
2. Running an effective huddle or meeting with your team will leave
everyone energized and feeling that you've really accomplished
something. So what makes a meeting effective?
3. According to experts, effective meetings boil down to three things:
1. They achieve the meeting's objective.
2. They take up a minimum amount of time.
3. They leave participants feeling that a sensible process has
been followed.
4. If you structure your meeting planning, preparation,
execution, and follow up around these three basic
criteria, the result will be an effective meeting.
To ensure maximum satisfaction for everyone, there are seven more
things you should keep in mind:
6. Summarize
for clarity
Once you’ve covered a topic, summarize what was
said, and ask people to confirm they are in agreement.
Then make notes regarding follow-up.
8. Read your
audience
Watch body language and make adjustments as
necessary. Maybe you need a break, or you need to stop
someone from speaking too much.
11. Outline next
steps
At the close of the meeting, quickly summarize next
steps and inform everyone that you will be sending out
a meeting summary.
12. A key part of running effective meetings is making sure that the
change every one talked about making happens and is having the
desired impact. To be effective you need to keep your finger on the
pulse of every part of the employee experience.
13. Download our guide on when to use Pulse Surveys with the members
of your team.