Effective Meetings Assessment Instrument

Running effective meetings is a key component to team member job satisfaction, developing high-performing teams, effective problem-solving, and is an core managerial and leadership competency. The Gavares Group's Effective Meetings Assessment Instrument helps people to learn about running meetings effectively, their own skills and habits for running meetings, and is an effective tool for organization interventions, including: leadership and managerial development, team development, culture and climate organizational change efforts. The survey assists individuals in both diagnostic and prescription for the teams they belong to.

People learn to:

1. Understand the differences between regular staff meetings and task-team/problem-solving meetings.
2. Understand the importance of pre-meeting activities, including the following:
   • determining the right location
   • proper room setup, and seating
   • establishing and publishing an agenda
3. Understand the best days and times for meetings, and factors which influence the frequency and length of meetings.
4. Know some of the common ground-rules for teams, and will have established them for their own teams.
5. Learn the key elements of agendas and meeting minutes.
   
6. Understand how to resolve some of the more common group dynamic problems that arise during meetings.
   
7. Learn the techniques of Nominal Group Process, Brainstorming, Parking Lots, Multi-voting, and a Creative Problem Solving Model.
   
8. Develop a list of the most common reasons that they dislike meetings, and develop solutions by having a practice problem-solving meeting in their task teams, and applying the techniques and concepts of effective meetings that they have learned in the session.

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