"It's almost time for our weekly staff meeting. I'm eager for it to start."
Those words have never been spoken or written without sarcasm, anywhere, ever.
Why is that? With e-mail and instant-message software fragmenting professional teams into isolated workers, meetings should be a welcome opportunity to bond with colleagues, share information and even get inspired. Instead, many professionals view meetings with dread.
Often, just one mistake can turn a meeting from the productive, team-building event it could be into an energy-sapping waste of time. Here are some of the biggest meeting mistakes -- and how to avoid them.
#1 Having No Clear Purpose
"It's Monday" is not a good enough reason to have a staff meeting.
If you don't have useful information to share with your team -- information they'll need to perform their jobs -- then it might make more sense to let them spend that hour working, rather than sitting in a meeting "just to get caught up" with the group.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Five Meeting Mistakes (7/21/10) -- GovExec.com
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