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Encyclopedia > Meeting

Meetings are sometimes held around conference tables.
Meetings are sometimes held around conference tables.

In a meeting, two or more people come together for the purpose of discussing a (usually) predetermined topic such as buisness or community event planning, often in a formal setting. Download high resolution version (820x376, 54 KB)Photo by Quadell File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Download high resolution version (820x376, 54 KB)Photo by Quadell File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... welcome:: This is an article about items in a room. ...


In addition to coming together physically (in real life, face to face), communication lines and equipment can also be set up to have a discussion between people at different locations, e.g. a conference call or an e-meeting. For other meanings of this phrase (book and album titles etc. ... A conference call is a telephone call in which the calling party wishes to have more than one called party listen in to the audio portion of the call. ... It has been suggested that H.331 be merged into this article or section. ...


In organizations, meetings are an important vehicle for human communication. They are so common and pervasive in organizations, however, that many take them for granted and forget that, unless properly planned and executed, meetings can be a terrible waste of precious resources. It has been suggested that Organizing be merged into this article or section. ... Human communication is the field dedicated to understanding how people communicate: with themselves intrapersonal communication another person interpersonal communication within groups group dynamics within organizations organizational communication across cultures cross-cultural communication Important Figures David Berlo Brent Ruben Wendell Johnson Norbert Weiner Marshal McLuhan Carl Rogers Albert Mehrabian Related topics...


Because of their importance, a career in professional meeting planning has emerged in recent years. In addition, the field of Meeting Facilitation has formalized with an internationally-recognized "Certified Professional Facilitator" designation through the International Association of Facilitators (IAF)

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Types of meetings

Meetings are often held in conference rooms
Meetings are often held in conference rooms

Meetings fall into ten categories: Image File history File links Information. ... Shortcut: WP:WIN Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia and, as a means to that end, also an online community. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Conferenceroom2. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ...

  • 1) Status Meetings, generally Leader-led, which are about reporting by one-way communication;
  • 2) Work Meetings, which produce a product or intangible result such as a decision
  • 3) Staff meeting -- typically a meeting between a manager and those that report to the manager (possibly indirectly).
  • 4) Team meeting -- a meeting among colleagues working on various aspects of a team project.
  • 5) Ad-hoc meeting -- a meeting called together for a special purpose
  • 6) Management meeting -- a meeting among managers
  • 7) Board meeting -- a meeting of the Board of directors of an organization
  • 8) One to one meeting -- a meeting between two individuals
  • 9) Off-site meeting -- also called "offsite retreat" or "retreat" and known as an Awayday meeting in the UK
  • 10) Kick-off Meeting-- is the first meeting with the project team and the client of the project to discuss the role of each team member

Look up Ad hoc in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In relation to a company, a director is an officer (that is, someone who works for the company) charged with the conduct and management of its affairs. ... The term retreat has several related meanings, all of which have in common the notion of safety or temporarily removing oneself from ones usual environment. ... An Awayday was formerly the name given to a cheap day return railway British railway network but is now regularly applied in a business context to a meeting, often of a whole department or project team, which takes place off-site and away from their usual office surroundings, usually for...

Meeting styles

  • stand-up meeting
  • breakfast meeting
  • off-site meeting

Meeting frequency options

Since a meeting can be held once or often, the meeting organizer has to determine the repetition and frequency of occurrence of the meeting. Options generally include the following:

  • A one-time meeting is the most common meeting type and covers events that are self-contained. While they may repeat often, the individual meeting is the entirety of the event. This can include a 2006 conference. The 2007 version of the conference is a stand-alone meeting event.
  • A recurring meeting is a meeting that recurs periodically, such as an every Monday staff meeting from 9:00AM to 9:30 AM. The meeting organizer wants the participants to be at the meeting on a constant and repetitive basis. A recurring meeting can be ongoing, such as a weekly team meeting, or have an end date, such as a 5 week training meeting, held every Friday afternoon.
  • A series meeting is like a recurring meeting, but the details differ from meeting to meeting. One example of a series meeting is a monthly "lunch and learn" event at a company, church, club or organization. The placeholder is the same, but the agenda and topics to be covered vary. This is more of a recurring meeting with the details to be determined.

Further reading

Merianne Liteman, Sheila Campbell, Jeffrey Liteman, Retreats that Work: Everything You Need to Know About Planning and Leading Great Offsites, Expanded Edition, ISBN 0-7879-8275-X


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Meeting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (223 words)
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Team meeting -- a meeting among colleagues working on various aspects of a team project.
Board meeting -- a meeting of the Board of directors of an organization
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The APHA Annual Meeting is the premier platform to share successes and failures, discover exceptional best practices and learn from expert colleagues and the latest research in the field.
Recorded Presentations: Expanded Access to Annual Meeting Sessions - Registrants for the E-ssentialLearning package at the 2005 Annual Meeting are now able to view the recorded sessions.
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