Effective meetings are important to our working life; after all, no one wants to waste time, engage in unhealthy dissent or increase workloads.
If you’re holding a meeting to share ideas, solve problems, build team morale or train your team members, establishing meeting ground rules (or house rules) can help ensure your time is well spent.
Just like the rules of a sporting match, meeting ground rules ensure all team members are aware of –
- the parameters in which the meeting will operate
- what they can expect of others
- what is expected of them
Meetings that have ground rules are more likely to –
- run on time
- achieve their purpose
- deliver value
- nurture positive connections
- foster a collaborative environment
Of course, some conventions may already exist within your workplace (having phones switched to silent at all times), so meeting ground rules are in addition to those understandings.
At GroupMap there’s nothing we like more than coming together to share, create and inspire each other.
Here are the five great ground rules we use to help us get the most out of our meetings.
We agree to –