Types of business meetings

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List of Types of Business Meetings By Christina Hamlett, eHow Contributor List of Types of Business Meetings Throughout your career life, you're likely to attend lots of meetings with your supervisors, peers and subordinates. Although there are many different kinds and styles of meetings, they all serve the same objective--to foster teamwork and help the business do a better job. 1. 2. Brainstorming Sessions
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"Think tank" meetings bring participants together to explore the available options for resolving a current or potential problem. Everyone's ideas are heard, discussed, modified and debated, and the solution that the majority agrees is the most practical is the one that gets chosen. Status Updates

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Managers and line supervisors often hold weekly or monthly staff meetings as a forum to assess each unit's progress and assign new tasks as well as identify declining sales or services issues before they escalate into major problems. These meetings usually follow a written agenda and participants are expected to be prepared. Damage Control

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Whether it's a political campaign in a tailspin or a baby food company that's been forced to recall a product because of contamination, it's critical that everyone be on the same page. Rather than risk the press hearing 50 different versions of what happened, the purpose of a damage control meeting is to verify the facts and script one reply that all participants will adhere to. Personnel Meetings

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Personnel meetings take three forms. The first is an interview to hire someone and involves the applicant and two to four people familiar with the job requirements. The second is an administrative hearing for determining whether there are grounds for disciplinary actions or dismissal. This involves the employee, his union rep, and individuals who have knowledge of the case. The third is a staffing review to identify which divisions need more staff or can meet budget cuts through furloughs and attrition. Pitch Sessions

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When you're in the business of courting new clients, the colloquial term for a pitch session is a "dog and pony show." The purpose is to present enough razzle-dazzle that will not only impress the client but also demonstrate that you've researched her needs and are prepared to give her all your attention. Conversely, vendors use pitch sessions on company decision makers to convince them to carry their products. Shareholder Meetings

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Investors like to know that their money and their trust haven't been misplaced, especially in a shaky economy. A shareholder meeting is a large-scale forum in which annual reports are

distributed to members, who have the opportunity to hear what the board has to say about the company's standing and future growth. Start-Up Companies
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If it's a brand new company in the works, the early meetings will involve its main players and focus on issues such as its structure and governing by-laws, financing, marketing, location, insurance, licensing, and scope of products and services.

Types of Meetings by STEVEN M. SMITH · 42 COMMENTS 4tweetsretweet There are different types of meetings. Each type requires a different structures and supports a different number of participants. For instance, a status (feedforward) meeting has no limit to the number of participants while a decision-making meeting produces results faster with a small number of participants. If you want to help your teams have more effective meetings, set the participants expectations about the meeting by stating in the agenda –
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the purpose of the meeting. the type of meeting

The typical meeting types are:
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problem-solving decision-making planning feedforward (status reporting and new information presentations) feedback (reacting and evaluating ) combination meetings

For instance, the agenda states that you will be a participant in a problem-solving meeting to scale the application so it supports 500 simultaneous users. That description makes it crystal clear what you are there to do. And after you participate in a number of the same type of meetings, you will know that meeting’s structure and your role.

Although it’s in the list, I don’t like combination meetings. Participants, in my experience, aren’t as focused in a combination meeting; thus the results are poor. If you insist on combination meetings, I suggest your break them into segments of different meeting types. Despite segmentation, time management for a combination meeting is more difficult than a single type of meeting because you have more than one purpose to achieve. If you want to save yourself and your teammates time and effort, propose to management that the purpose, type, and agenda of a meeting be clearly stated in the scheduling request for every meeting. Go the extra mile. Find out how participants rate the value of the meeting. Use that feedback to constantly adapt the design of the meeting to produce greater value.

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