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Meetings don’t have to be a boring waste of time

To some of us, meetings at work are a colossal waste of time. But Timmins Chamber of Commerce past-president Christine Bender enjoys meetingsā€¦ and has chaired a lot of them over her work life.

On Wednesday morning at the Chamber, sheā€™ll be presenting a workshop called ā€œManaging Effective Meetings.ā€

Bender says one of the most effective ways of doing that is setting a clear objective, so that participants know what the meeting is aboutā€¦ and what should be achieved. ā€œWe can do that by having a really clear agenda and then when people leave that meeting, theyā€™ll feel like theyā€™ve met those objectives.ā€

Bender also says the chair of a meeting can keep participants from going off on tangents and repeating whatā€™s already been saidā€¦ by setting clear rules.

ā€œBy ensuring at the beginning of the meeting that people understand what the rules of engagement are,ā€ she comments. ā€œso itā€™s not necessary to repeat and repeat and repeat what other people have said, but encourage people to stay on track.ā€

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