Types of meetings

There are different types of meetings. Each type requires a different structures and supports a different number of participants. For instance, a status (feedforward) meeting has no limit to the number of participants while a decision-making meeting produces results faster with a small number of participants.

If you want to help your teams have more effective meetings, set the participants expectations about the meeting by stating in the agenda –

• the purpose of the meeting.
• the type of meeting

The typical meeting types are:

• problem-solving
• decision-making
• planning
• feedforward (status reporting and new information presentations)
• feedback (reacting and evaluating )
• combination meetings