BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Meeting
- a gathering of two or more people for a particular purpose. Meetings are convened for a variety of purposes, including planning, decision making, problem solving, communication, and the exchange of information. They may be informal, for example, a few people getting together to discuss ideas, or they may be formal, following strict procedures. Formal meetings are conducted by a chairperson according to an agenda set in advance, and the proceedings are recorded in minutes. Some meetings, such as company board meetings and annual meetings, are a legal requirement, and take place on a regular basis.
- See also Chair
Wiktionary Definition for: Meeting
- rfex An agreed upon event which happens at a specified time and place.
- A gathering among business people to discuss their business.
- Ex:''The next '''meeting''' will be on Tuesday at 3:00PM.''
- An encounter between people.
- Ex:''They came together in a chance '''meeting''' on the way home from work.''
- present participle of meet
Additional Resources
- How to Run an Effective Meeting
- Have you ever sat though a pointless meeting and calculated just how much money was being wasted as a dozen well-paid professionals zoned out around a deathly boring conference table? Make Every Meeting Matter — or Don't Meet at All Goal:...
- Articles 2007-04-09
- How to Run an Effective Meeting
- How to Run an Effective MeetingHow to run a meetingDear BNETA well structured article, which needs a special commendation.As a very Senior Executive Retd a short while ago from Reserve Bank of Indiaat decision making level and also ex-Director on the Board of a bank, I had attended or chaired...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-10
- 9 Tips to Control Every Meeting and Get What You Want
- Are you nailing job interviews, closing new clients, and maximizing every meeting? Most likely you aren't, but I'll show you how I blew a huge meeting and what you can learn from my mistakes. Bottom line . . . you need to prepare for key meetings. It...
- Blog posts 2009-09-09
- Surviving Your Worst Meeting Nightmares
- Surviving Your Worst Meeting NightmaresIf Someone falls asleep you should...We have a boss at my company - he is actually a fairly senior level commander of a military organization - who has mastered the art of falling asleep in meetings, even those that he has called. While it is...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-10
- The Test of a Good Meeting
- What is the point of a business meeting? For Pierre-Francois, chef du cabinet of a leading French government ministry, they are "a great opportunity to sabotage other ministers' plans." But purpose of meetings is unclear to many managers. Some meetings are held because...
- Blog posts 2009-05-08
- Shake It Up: Alternative Meeting Strategies
- Tired of typical conference-room confabs? Try these creative meeting techniques used by companies like Yahoo!, Ritz Carlton, and Old Navy. Ritz-Carlton Meeting Technique:Start each shift with short stand-up meetings Pros:Quickly disseminates critical information Cons:Not long enough to go in-depth...
- Articles 2007-04-09
- Shake It Up: Alternative Meeting Strategies
- Shake It Up: Alternative Meeting Strategiesalternative meeting strategiesvery interesting to learnhmmmmGreat topic of advice!!This is interesting, but do you have ideas for non-retail companies as well?Alternative Meeting StartegiesVery Helpful - I teach low level management for construction studentsAlternative Meeting StrategiesReally like the idea, but echo the "resumes" comment, whereby I...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-10
- Track the Real Cost of Meetings with Meeting Miser
- Track the Real Cost of Meetings with Meeting MiserUse the Meeting Miser OR fix your meetingsWhile the Meeting Miser sounds cute, it does not measure the benefits of the meeting or it assumes that there are none. If the meeting produces any improved processes, increased safety, better products, improved...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-08
- Meet the Meeting Miser
- Meet the Meeting MiserThis is funny -- yet so trueWe've already started using Meeting Miser internally at BNET. It starts out as a kinda joke -- "Ha. Ha. Look how much this meeting is costing the company." -- But then you leave it up on the conference room monitor and...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-08
- Meet the Meeting Miser
- Meeting Miser, a handy new time management tool for BNET users to track time spent - or wasted - in meetings. The Miser runs a tab of your meeting's actual cost. Track the true cost of meetings It's a cliché in every workplace: Meetings...
- Articles 2007-11-03
- Chairing a Brainstorming Meeting
- Chairing a Brainstorming MeetingBrainstormingI am a university professor and organizational trainer. I have facilitating many brainstorming meetings over the years. I like your suggestions, and just want to add one point I have found helpful. When writing the participants' ideas up on the flip chart or white board, use their...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-10
- 6 Tips to Improve Group Dynamics in a Meeting
- I'm not telling you anything new when I say that many meetings are simply a waste of time. But do you know exactly why? Stephen Smith at Productivity in Context points out that it's the group dynamics of meetings, not the meetings themselves, that can create problems....
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- Track the Real Cost of Meetings with Meeting Miser
- Most bosses know that dragging the troops into a meeting or conference call takes them away from doing actual work. But at what real-world cost? Find out with Meeting Miser, a seriously fascinating -- and potentially sobering -- meeting timer that calculates the cost down to the penny. Here's how...
- Blog posts 2007-11-07
- Outlook Meeting Requests: Essential Do's And Don'ts
- This paper explains about the do's and dont's of outlook meeting requests. Some of them is like making a choice, sending updates, to cancel a single meeting, to Cancel recurring meeting, to Change meeting organizers, to Keep meetings from vanishing, to Process meeting requests and updates from the Inbox, to...
- White papers
- Meeting in Person? What a Waste of Time!
- Meeting in Person? What a Waste of Time!meet in personWell I knew it would come to this so here's my two cents.A Meeting is just that a "Meet" "Ing" not a "Showing" where what happens on an internet screen takes place or a "Telling" where we spew miscellaneous information over...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- Meeting One-on-One With Every Last Staffer
- Meeting One-on-One With Every Last StafferRE: Meeting One-on-One With Every Last StafferI think meeting each staffer several times a year is often impractical. What if you are a global company or even just geographically diverse etc etc?Anyway, at Mother Aetna as she was once referred to the rule was that...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Google's Annual Shareholder Meeting: Where Were Sergey and Larry?
- Matthew Rafat submits: I attended Google's GOOG annual shareholder meeting yesterday, May 7, 2009. As usual, the meeting took place on Google's campus. In the past, meetings were an intimate, casual affair. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google's founders, would sit on stools and answer shareholder questions. I loved...
- External links 2009-05-08
- Time for a Meeting Revolution: All Those in Favour?
- Research published today by IT company Parity found UK business professionals spend the equivalent of eight weeks a year in face-to-face meetings. This is compounded by a lot of other research from Canada to New Zealand that comes to the same conclusion: unnecessary...
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- Live Blogging the Open Commission Meeting
- For more information and a host of resources pertaining to today's meeting click here . 10:03 AM EDT Welcome to the November Open Commission meeting. Today the commissioners will review the state of the National Broadband Plan and consider a draft ruling on the wireless...
- News items 2009-11-21
- DIAZINON MEETING.(pesticide's tolerances are reassessed)(Brief Article)
- DIAZINON MEETING: The EPA will hold a public meeting on Dec. 5 in Alexandra, VA to present the revised risk assessment for the organophosphate pesticide diazinon to interested stakeholders. This public meeting, called a "Technical Briefing," DIAZINON MEETING: The EPA will hold a public meeting on...
- Research articles 2000-11-13
