As a software development company, we value our time and understand how maximizing a meeting efficiency is valuable. In this article, we listed 10 methods to achieve this.
- Only discuss one topic at a time in a meeting.
- Always have everyone taking notes.
- Know before hand what the reason for the meeting is and what needs to be discussed.
- Don’t to use the meeting times to come up with solution but rather discuss solutions that have been developed before hand.
- Time the meetings and keep it time-bound.
- Practice good meeting manners, such as:
- listen to the person talking
- don’t repeat the same thing over and over
- Prepare for meetings.
- Always come up with action plans at the end of meetings.
- Have one person run a meeting.
- If you call a meeting, define the reason, purpose and what needs to be accomplished before hand.