WEEK 7 HOMEWORK

 In week seven we learnt about how to conduct productive and efficient meetings. A lot of meetings are done poorly and usually aren't productive or when they are they aren't efficient. The first question to ask is if it's even necessary for the meeting to take place. Meetings that happen for the sake of happening are usually a waste of time and the time wasted would have been used for other business projects. A good meeting should always start on time. Additionally, giving five minutes before the meeting for informal conversation allows the participants to loosen up before the meeting. Starting your meeting with a good positive opening line, for example "Okay everyone good news..." uplifts the participants. A good meeting should have a to-do checklist. In every meeting goals should be checked off the to-do list and others should be added to the to-do list. If there are any problems they should be discussed in the meeting and solutions should be found. During the meeting every headline should be shared with everyone so as to put everyone on the same page. From there, solutions to problems discussed can be found and added to the to-do list. By the end of the meeting a review should be taken to evaluate whether or not the meeting was a success. Lastly, we were told to pick our group members for the class project we'll be doing this semester where we'll use everything we've learnt in class so far to help market the chosen organization.

It was good to know what could have been done differently in my past meetings to improve efficiency. The other thing I found interesting was how we were told to pick our own partners for the group project. I thought the Professor would strategically place us into groups and we would be forced to work with each other but instead he threw me off by giving us the freedom to choose who we wanted to work with. It may have been a deliberate move to see how we would place ourselves and what the outcome will be or I'm just overthinking it and he really didn't mind as long as we got into three groups of four (I highly doubt that though). Overall, I'm excited to start on our project work. I've had business classes before but never ones this practical so I'm looking forward to applying the things we've learnt in class. 

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  1. Rab21 November 2023 at 05:59

    I let you all choose as I was interested to see who would put themselves into which positions (mouth/head/heart). And I try to make the classes as practical as possible as the course name is Practical English! :)

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