"Many of us have been to meetings where things got out of control and/or our objectives for holding the meeting were not met," Lee said. "We felt the time in those meetings was greatly wasted and wondered what went wrong. Some of us have even been the leaders at such meetings."
Ten common mistakes that meeting leaders make and meeting attendees often accept without question during the meeting are:
- 1. The meeting leader does not understand the role of facilitator.
- 2. The recorder role is under appreciated.
- 3. The leader does not have a written agenda.
- 4. If they have an agenda, they allow random changes.
- 5. The agenda does not have times assigned to each topic.Records of meeting are not visible during meeting.
- 7. Records of meeting are not distributed afterwards.Actions are not recorded during meeting.
- 9. Actions are not assigned to people before meeting ends.
- 10. Deadlines are not assigned to actions.
