Contact: Yateen Gharat, CPF - yyateen@gmail.com

Location: TISS – New campus , Mumbai

Making Meetings work.

Context setting-
Introduction-

Free expression forum –

People walk around the room and these questions are posted on the flip chart across the rooms.

What are the meetings? – Why we conduct meetings? - Why many a times meetings seems to be a waste of time? – Why meetings fail? – Why people walk out of the meetings frustrated?

Debrief -:

What interesting conversations you heard during this 20 min?

What feelings aroused in you?

What was most disturbing?

What you think can be done about the way meetings are conducted?

What did you learn about the meetings?

Next process - Data Mining-:

Brief about How to conduct effective meetings will be posted on the wall – ( Body Of Knowledge.)

People do a Free walk around to gather the information.

Teams are formed – 6 people per team.

Each team prepares a small demonstration about how to conduct the effective meetings.

10 min per team for Demo.

Debrief around –

What did you see or heard during these presentations?

What are some of the interesting things that you saw?

What are your feelings about this?

What was most disturbing or different?

What did you like about it?

What concrete steps you would like to take personally?

How would you conduct your meeting effectively hence forth

Next process -:

Teams discuss and co create – Ideal ways to conduct effective meetings-

On the sticky wall some concrete action steps in sequence.