Facilitate Proceedings

Are meetings getting a bad rap? Statistics indicate that meetings are not about to go away, in fact one survey reports that 72% of the respondents spend more time in meetings than they did five years ago. Why? The authors explain that today’s flattened organizations make more use of self-directed teams, under the assumption that important ideas and innovation can emerge from employee interaction, and meetings remain the best vehicle to do this. Interestingly, while employees often publicly lament about “meeting hell”, privately they admit that meetings are important to their work. It’s therefore a worthwhile goal to improve meeting effectiveness. The authors suggest that improving both managers’ and employees’ meeting skills and implementing best practices for running meetings will make it happen. To receive a free reprint of this MITSloan Management Review article, contact us with your name and mailing address and we’ll pop one in the post for you.

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