He or she will also give participants pulse checks on time, and keep the meeting on track. Calculate the per-hour salary of each participant and add up the fees. You'll be trimming unnecessary meeting time in seconds. Turn ideas and decisions into action. Meetings can be so vague that participants don't know what they're supposed to do next.
Sick meetings can mean two people are doing the same task while another task sits idle.
Because the capacity for misunderstanding is limitless, good facilitators will get agreement on every decision, help the group develop an action item associated with every decision and will assign a person responsible for the action. The meeting minutes reflect these assignments. 4. Have fun, but don't mismatch activities and people. Yes, meetings are work. But that doesn't mean participants can't have fun.