10 Steps to Successful Meetings

STEP TEN:

Evaluate Your Success and Follow Up

• Evaluate the meeting
• Conduct a self-evaluation
• Distribute meeting notes and track commitments
• Host a productive meeting

With the meeting nearly closed, the age-old question looms: “How can we tell if the meeting was effective?” Is success based on how much fun the participants had during the meeting? Although having fun might be a characteristic of a productive meeting, it isn’t a key metric of success.

Evaluate the Meeting

Evaluating how productive the meeting was should be measured against these criteria:

• Were the meeting objectives accomplished?
• Was the meeting held in a time-efficient manner?
• Were the participants satisfied with the results?

Given the amount of time that people ...