5 Proven Ways to Make Your Meetings Actually Worth Attending

Happy Back-To-Back-Meetings-Day 😄

Even if a lot of meetings are boring and people seem to wonder what they're doing there from the first second they join, there is a way to increase engagement, as a meeting "host". In a nutshell :

→ Be clear in your meeting invite! People need to understand what this meeting is for, and what the outcome should be
→ Be grateful for people joining. Just thank them in the meeting. It feels good and subconsciously makes people feel like they're (more) at the right place
→ Start on time! Stop adapting your schedule to the late joiners. Because then you're losing the early joiners
→ Show some enthusiasm! Hosting a meeting is being the Master Of Ceremony. If you seem to get bored about YOUR own stuff... good luck for creating engagement.
→ Finish the discussion 5 minutes earlier. So you can properly wrap-up and not having this feeling of "slowly dying meeting" when participants leave one after another

Any other tips? Please share! 😊