“6 Absolutely Key ‘Must Haves’ For An Effective Meeting!”

Where ever and whenever you meet the following 6 ‘Must Haves’ will really make the difference in terms of time spent, ideas generated, consensus built, commitment given and the energy necessary to take things forward — & when you finish reading you may even decide to reconfigure the meeting room and sell those chairs!

So, let’s begin

In the workplace Generation Y’rs — Millennials or Echoboomers, mostly born during the mid-to-late 1980’s — are not only feedback hungry, they also see meetings as Time-Stealers!

They’ve come of age in the Age of Great Acceleration — the fast-paced Web 2.0 age; expecting access to knowledge at the touch of a button and more used to going to trusted networks and viewing YouTube videos to make decisions.

So, as these Y’s increasingly make-up more and more of the workforce and come into positions of influence themselves, for any meeting (whether on or off-line) you absolutely must have these 6 things cracked.

Or, you may be in sight of the shore, but with very little hope of making landfall! And what does that lead to — Frustration, Friction & Under Performance to paraphrase Peter Drucker!

1. A Clear Purpose & A Real Reason To Meet: So obvious these two things shouldn’t need stating, but they…