{"id":624,"date":"2016-09-26T17:01:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T16:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/?p=624"},"modified":"2016-09-26T17:01:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T16:01:37","slug":"how-to-run-a-successful-planning-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/uncategorized\/how-to-run-a-successful-planning-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"How to run a successful planning meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How to run a successful planning meeting? We have all been there.<\/p>\n<p>Sat in a meeting or holding on the end of the phone. Waiting for the leader to join the meeting or questioning why we have given up precious time to listen to a disorganized meeting.<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of lists of how to run a successful meeting? All available on the Internet although I have found the following points helpful for myself.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify the purpose of the meeting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Do you need a meeting?)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make sure you have an agenda for the meeting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Either write the agenda or ask for one in advance)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Invite and hold the date.<\/li>\n<li>Allow enough time for the meeting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Someone leaving halfway through to go to another meeting can cause the meeting to fail)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Start the meeting on time \u2013 aim to finish on time<\/li>\n<li>Choose the correct environment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Are there enough chairs? Are you discussing sensitive information? Can other people listen in to the discussion?)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Understand your role within the meeting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Are you expected to present or share information to the group?)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Confirm who is writing up the meeting notes and circulate post meeting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to run a successful planning meeting? We have all been there. Sat in a meeting or holding on the end of the phone. Waiting for the leader to join the meeting or questioning why we have given up precious time to listen to a disorganized meeting. There are plenty of lists of how to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}