meeting

(noun)

A gathering of people/parties for a purpose.

Related Terms

  • Collaboration
  • agenda

Examples of meeting in the following topics:

  • Sponsoring Conferences, Hackathons, and other Developer Meetings

  • Meeting In Person (Conferences, Hackfests, Code-a-Thons, Code Sprints, Retreats)

  • Frontier Revivals

    • In the newly settled frontier regions, the revivals of the Second Great Awakening took the form of camp meetings.
    • These meetings were often the first experience settlers had with organized religion.
    • The camp meeting was a religious service of several days' length involving multiple preachers.
    • Settlers in thinly populated areas would gather at the camp meeting for fellowship.
    • One of the early camp meetings took place in July 1800 at Gasper River Church in southwestern Kentucky.
  • Making the Most of Committees

    • Two reminders per meeting may be enough—one by letter and one by e-mail, for instance—but three are better, including one the day before the meeting itself.
    • Preparing for committee meetings well takes you a third of the way toward productivity.
    • The next third can be reached by running those meetings efficiently.
    • Committee meetings, however, should not be primarily social time.
    • Instead, it makes crystal clear who's responsible for what actions prior to the next meeting.
  • Voting Right

    • Many of the voting rights of a shareholder can be exercised at annual general body meetings of companies.
    • An annual general meeting is a meeting that official bodies and associations involving the general public (including companies with shareholders) are often required by law (or the constitution, charter, by-laws, etc., governing the body) to hold.
    • Shareholders also have the option to mail their votes in if they cannot attend the shareholder meetings.
    • In 2007, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to require all public companies to make their annual meeting materials available online.
    • This scene from "The Office" humorously illustrates a shareholder meeting, where the shareholder can exercise their right to vote on company issues or question company directors.
  • Do What to Make Friends?

    • Here are his allegations about committees and committee meetings:
    • The accomplishments of a committee are inversely related to the number of times it meets.
    • Doubling the number of meetings cuts total accomplishments in half, and so on.
    • The aggregate intelligence of any committee for a meeting cannot be higher than the aggregate intelligence that remained at the end of the last meeting of the committee.
    • I've done my best here to denigrate committees and committee meetings.
  • du, ihr, oder Sie

    • (meeting up with a group of your friends)
  • Managing Organizational Priorities

    • In business, an agenda is commonly brought to a meeting to ensure everyone understands what will be discussed.
    • Reading the agenda in advance ensures that the overarching goals of a given meeting are clear and understood by all participants prior to the discussion.
    • This type of agenda provides a timeline and tracking mechanisms for participants involved in a given project and may or may not require onsite meetings.
    • Public companies have a more important relationship with agendas than private companies, as they are usually required to record meeting minutes.
    • Managers must be skilled in controlling the pace, tone, and trajectory of discussions at meetings.
  • Introduction to Managing Change

    • Just ask Amy Spatrisano, principal and co-founder of Meeting Strategies Worldwide (an international meeting and event organizer).
    • Unfortunately, as Amy later lamented, many of the meeting planners, hotels, caterers and other businesses she works with remain unimpressed by these figures.
    • Even if you show them they'll save money and even if you make it easy,'she says, ‘it doesn't mean they'll do it. ' (Makower, Joel, ‘Meeting Expectations')
  • The Impact of the Office Environment on Employee Communication

    • Work places are typically divided into three physical areas: work spaces, meeting spaces, and support spaces.
    • Meeting spaces are also an important facet to consider when improving and building work places.
    • Following are some types of meeting spaces:
    • Large meeting room – An enclosed space for five to twelve people, suitable for formal interaction
    • Meeting point – An open area for two to four persons such as a sitting area, suitable for ad hoc, informal meetings
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