This page is designed to help you manage communications in meetings. All effective meeting serves a useful purpose, meaning, you should achieve a desired outcome. For any meeting to meet its outcome, or objective, you should be clear about what it is. Often, people call for a meeting to discuss things without really considering what a good outcome would be. Always know what you want is it a; decision you want to make? Are you generating ideas? Getting status reports? Communicating something? Or making plans?
some of these self-questioning, and a myriad of others, will help you meet a meeting objective. Before you do any meeting planning, focus on your objective.
The organizational structure in a meeting should not be complex. Hierarchical levels should be optimum, to have an ideal span of control within the organization. The Simpler the organizational structure, the more effective will be the communication.
Make effective use of body language while communicating. Avoid showing emotions while communication as the receiver might misinterpret the message being delivered. For instance, if you are conveying a message while in a bad mood the receiver might think you delivering bad information.
Prevent negative conflict, by establishing operating principles, roles, responsibilities, goals and metrics for the team (Massey et al., 2003; Wilson, 2003).
some of these self-questioning, and a myriad of others, will help you meet a meeting objective. Before you do any meeting planning, focus on your objective.
The organizational structure in a meeting should not be complex. Hierarchical levels should be optimum, to have an ideal span of control within the organization. The Simpler the organizational structure, the more effective will be the communication.
Make effective use of body language while communicating. Avoid showing emotions while communication as the receiver might misinterpret the message being delivered. For instance, if you are conveying a message while in a bad mood the receiver might think you delivering bad information.
Prevent negative conflict, by establishing operating principles, roles, responsibilities, goals and metrics for the team (Massey et al., 2003; Wilson, 2003).