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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- (meeting up with a group of your friends)
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- 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.
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- 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')
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- 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