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Before holding any meeting, ask yourself these five questions:
1 Why are we meeting?

2 What would be the result of not having the meeting, or
what should result from having it?

3 Who should attend?
4 How long should it be and how should it be structured?
5 When is the best time to hold it?

You cannot ban all meetings, so you must manage them to get the
best results.To do this you need to identify the type of meeting:

The

Adair five 3 ‘Council’ meetings

to make and share
types of responsibility for
decisions, resolving
meeting differences on the way

4 Committee meetings
to ‘vote’ decisions and
1 Briefing meetings reach compromises/
to impart and share accommodations of
information, to clarify different views on matters
points and incorporate of common concern
ideas from others
5 Negotiating meetings
2 Advisory meetings to reach decisions by
to gather views and bargaining with other
advice and to outline or party(ies) who are acting
share any ideas in their own best interest

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