INFOGRAPHIC: 9 WAYS TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE EFFECTIVE MEETINGS

9 Ways to Make Sure You Have Effective Meetings
By CT Business Travel, 8 December 2015.

We’ve all been there - it’s gone on too long, key points haven’t been discussed, the meeting’s been a waste of time…

Meetings are a crucial part of the working ecosystem, helping to drive strategies forward, being a hub for new ideas and a place of respected discussion. Easier said than done though, don’t you think? It’s easy for meetings to slip into irrelevant discussion, meaning your allotted time is effectively wasted. What can be done to change this cycle?

Here at CT Business Travel we’ve teamed up with Neomam Studios to find a solution to this question. Have you ever had a meeting outside? Or, have you ever heard of the Swiss train approach? Our “9 ways to make sure you have effective meetings” suggests other interesting ways to approach your meetings for optimum effectiveness?

Infographic Sources:
1. The Condensed Guide to Running Meetings
2. Running Effective Meetings
3. How to Conduct an Effective Meeting
4. 5 Rules for Efficient, Effective Meetings
5. Better Business Meetings
6. Lateness to meetings: Examination of an unexplored temporal phenomenon
7. When Is The Best Time for a Meeting?
8. Meetings in America: A study of trends, costs, and attitudes toward business travel and teleconferencing, and their impact on productivity
9. Decision Fatigue Exhausts Self-Regulatory Resources

[Source: CT Business Travel.]