Great meetings are more than sticky notes and flip charts.

“Disorganized, rambling meetings” top the list of participants' frustrations, according to a recent Opinion Research USA survey. But meetings don’t have to be a waste of time. Imagine if your team could thoroughly explore problems and opportunities, generate innovative options, identify and address barriers to achieving results, manage conflict using collaborative strategies, enhance the quality of the decisions they make, develop and agree on specific action plans, and make individual commitments for critical next steps. You’d have a meeting that gets things done.

And you'd have a team that is improving working relationships and individual participants who are increasing commitment and satisfaction.