{"id":6522,"date":"2022-02-11T09:02:36","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T07:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmkedev.wpengine.com\/?p=3659"},"modified":"2022-02-11T09:02:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T07:02:39","slug":"office-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ke\/discover\/office-meetings","title":{"rendered":"Practical Ways of Holding Effective Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have heard about them or sat through them. Meetings that go on and on and in the end, all you remember is only what was said within the first 30 minutes of the 3-hour meeting. Meetings are a part and parcel of the world of work but, people have abused them so much over time that they have become a bore.<\/span><\/p>\n

Most people would do without meetings. In fact, people cite meetings as the number one way of wasting time and this is evident, based on the time spent in meetings and the rate at which issues are quickly forgotten. <\/span><\/p>\n

Take a casual glance at people in meetings. Farida will probably be on her phone the entire time, while Kiprop will probably be tapping away on his computer, while Omosh will mentally leave the room as soon as the head of the department is done talking. So, meetings go on for a whole day and at the end, no one knows exactly why they are there. Since some meetings are absolutely necessary, it then becomes important to learn what works and what doesn\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

Table of Contents<\/p>\n