The Leadership Japan Series By Dale Carnegie Training Japan

When you mention the word “meetings” to people in business, their eyes often start to roll.  Why is that? Usually because they feel there are too many meetings and that the meetings they attend are not effective nor worth the time being spent.  Given meetings have been around forever, you have to wonder why we haven’t done a better job yet on arranging our meetings so that they are effective.  Not all meetings are created equally and I think this is where we get confused.  There are very simple information sharing meetings and then at the other end of the scale, we have heavy duty, world changing, strategic meetings which will determine the fate of the enterprise over the next decade or more.   The complexity of the meetings should reflect the scale of time required and the number of people needed to attend, but often it doesn’t.  Many times, we are allocating too much time and requiring too many people for meetings. These simple meetings could either be replaced with an email or could be severely truncated i