Meetings are often long, boring, and a waste of everyone's time. Yet we still feel compelled to hold them and are usually expected to attend them. The truth is that while they often lack efficiency and effectiveness, meetings serve an important purpose in our organizations. The key to holding an effective meeting is to first understand why the meeting is being held. Meetings can be summed up into three different categories: 1) Oversight, 2) Communication, and 3) Decision. (Yes, the acronym for this is OCD!)
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