What You Don't Want to Cognize Just about Bad Meetings
by:
Steve Kaye
Bad meetings are a cultural malady that senior executives pass on to new employees.
Long pointless meetings are useful in that they keep incompetent folk from meddlesome with those who are working.
An worker
who inevitably permission to buy a box of paperclips can spend tens of thousands of dollars worth of worker
time on bad meetings.
Many folk attempt to save time by Not planning. This false short cut guarantees that everyone wish spend much time later.
Unstructured spontaneousness leads to serendipity, which (in business) leads to bankruptcy.
Meetings are a magnetic narcotic
that keep folk from the tasks they were hired to perform.
The main work in galore meetings consists of simple check chat. If it's an important meeting, then this becomes sincere check chat.
A meeting without an agenda is like a journey without a map.
A teleconferencing without an agenda is like a journey without a map, in the dark.
Most meetings are societal street lamps attracting the unproductive moths in an organization.
People fail to prepare an agenda for two reasons. They think they’re saving time and they don’t cognize what to put in it.
Expecting a meeting to produce results without an agenda is like expecting the Easter bunny to leave eggs on your doorstep.
Bad meetings waste a fortune. My surveys show that companies waste about 20% of their payroll on bad meetings.
Just about the author:
IAF Certified Professional Assistant and author Steve Kaye works with leaders who want to hold effective meeting. His innovative workshops have abreast of and divine folk nationwide. His facilitation produces results that folk wish support. Call 714-528-1300 or visit his web site for over 100 pages of valuable ideas. Sign up for his free news-sheet at http://www.stevekaye.com
