How Ordinary Meetings become Successful Meetings
Meetings are there to make things move forward.
And it’s good ideas that move things move forward the most.
You could say that the better the ideas, the more things move forward.
The opposite also applies. Without good ideas there can be no real progress.
So it follows that a meeting needs to be a situation where ideas can develop.
In contrast to this, you may know of meetings where ideas can’t or won’t develop, and no success ever results.
So stop right now and make a commitment to try to improve the quality of your meetings. Don’t worry, you’ll soon be shown how. The important thing is to be sure of your intention and commitment.
Consider this: Every meeting, no matter how ordinary, can become a successful meeting.
As part of our positive attitude, our success habit, we should always be looking to do this.
Here are some examples of what can come from good meetings and good ideas:
- A young graduate in production worked with a group to identify £90,000 pa in savings. He has since more than doubled his salary.
- A mid-thirties marketeer worked with a traditional conservative organisation and together they worked out how a marketing spend of £8,000 per month would produce sales of £100,000 per month.
- An older human resources manager worked with a group and together they avoided spending many tens of thousands hiring an external consultant. Instead they figured out a way to train their own staff in-house for a fraction of the cost.
Stories like the above happen all the time to those who can work with groups of people in meetings and get ideas out of them.
You can probably tell a few stories of your own too.
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