The post I am responding to was titled: "5 Meeting Traps and How to Fix Them" The author of this blog site is Steve Roesler.
1. The purpose of this blog is to inform the reader of five mistakes people make when planning meetings and how to fix the problems before making them.
2. The types of entries on this blog are people in positions of authority such as supervisors and leadership trainers and they agreed with his points and even added their own points.
3. The audience of this blog were the same as the respondents.
4. My response to this bog is that I believe that the author has some very credible points, they were very clearly stated, and well thought out.
A. People think their experts: Not everyone knows how to effectively run a meeting, when i all actuality all they do is throw a party.
B. People think their inspiring: Most people think that others want to listen when actually people would rather participate.
C. People Think others agree with them: Reality is most people just agree to appease the speaker and then after the meeting either forget the message or sabotage the idea
D. People think others are clairvoyant: Receiving a meeting invitation without an agenda and being expected to come to the meeting with a vision for what needs to be done
E. People think meetings are necessary: In fact they are downright expensive and should only be used if need be.
5. Ideas for my blog, or about blogging in my workplace/future career, or that relate to teh workplace in general inspired by my blog reading: Here is how I think I am going to respond to that, I do not think that blogging is for me, although it has been a fun experience learning how to do it and look some up. It takes up too much of my extra time that could be spent better used doing many other things. I also do not feel as though it would be very well used in my line of employment, human services. With the fact in mind that everything has to be so confidential in this field I do not think that this would be the best tool for someone in my line of work
Hey Jennifer,
ReplyDeleteI think I stumbled across that same blog when I was searching too. I read a few before deciding on one:O) Anyway, I agree with the blog author, meetings most of the time are pretty pointless, that is unless used wisely. And I think that a lot of people in higher positions do develop a big head about themselves (in some cases anyway). I have had to be at mandatory meetings before for jobs, and more that half the time it was nothing that even pertained to me or my position, the rest of the time it was the manager complaining about the "drama" between co-workers on the team and these meetings were her way of "dealing with the issues." Which of course solved nothing because she didn't even speak to the people involved directly.
And I agree with you 100% on not blogging in the career you have chosen. In fact, that is what the blog I chose was about- a social worker. You should check it out... I will post the URL (I forgot to when I posted on mine). I am going into the accounting field, and I don't think I could blog because of confidentiality too; nor do I even like this blogging, so I wouldn't anyway. LOL.
URL-http://nomiraclessw.blogspot.com/
~Sarah