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 […]
Two person (business) meetings, duets we will call them, tend to fall into one of four areas: education, security, political or disciplinary. Recognising which is sometimes explicit but not always and can sometimes combine two or more of the four. Looking at each: (1) Education: This is a broad category and covers duets for a […]
Among the many reasons for meetings there is the one you may not realise you are attending until some way through the meeting you thought you were attending! Talking here of course about the so called ‘hidden agenda’ in a meeting i.e. a secondary purpose to the original meeting subject which may have emerged as […]
The fourth stage in our model for effective meetings is Participating in a Meeting. On the MeetingArk website you can find discussion groups about Participating in a Meeting, and a set of FAQs (and answers) relating to Participating in a Meeting. Our discussion groups on Participating in a Meeting embrace a number of topics, starting […]
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 […]
We have attempted to build a model for effective meetings. This model is built around a cyclical process –after all many meetings are part of a sequence, as shown in the graphic below. In all we have 7 topics which reflect the meeting process. We have used this model as the framework of the MeetingArk […]
