JUST WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH MEETINGS?

Meetings are an essential part of getting things done. You loathe meetings not because of meetings themselves but because they are inappropriate or poorly run. Sometimes meetings are very rewarding. You already know why you dislike meetings. You've been there and you've experienced difficult people and the organisational chaos that wastes everyone's time and angers them. This means that you already know, deep down, what makes brilliant meetings. If you can identify the problems with meetings, then you know what must be done to overcome them and make meetings brilliant.

At the end of this exercise I'll give you my definition of a brilliant meeting.

For just seven minutes jot down quickly in the spaces provided, at least ten things that make the meetings you attend a waste of time.

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