Attendance: One of the best ways to confirm whether you have been invited to a meeting just to make up numbers is to fail to turn up then see if anyone noticed your absence or complains about it. Minute Taking: If you are chairing a meeting and want to ensure proper records are kept of […]
A ‘meeting of the minds’ is a cliché often employed to suggest a pair of parties seem to be in a close agreement about something. Informally it is a useful abbreviation of a generally solid consensus. However, there are occasions where this term can be very much more specific and focused, particularity in cases with […]
Let’s be honest, we’ve all at some point been invited (or more usually instructed) to join a meeting about which we know little in advance and have even less knowledge of what our contribution would be. These are very likely to be what I’m calling “Trawler Net meetings” because they are usually a result of […]
