Meeting

The meeting ( in Switzerland session) is in the working world, the meeting of certain employees at a meeting point, often with the participation of supervisors to discuss work-related issues and topics of all kinds and especially to design a future joint line or strategy.

Become meetings regularly and always recognized at the same date ( for example, " every Monday at 10:00 clock " ) is, inter alia, in project management also spoken by a regular meeting.

Meetings on a larger scale, however, are referred to as meeting or conference.

Expiration

More important meetings are often recorded and the record is then sent to all participants to record details of the content. Typical components of a protocol meeting the date and a list of the names and positions of participants, an indication of the Chairman and the note-taker, an updated task list, conventions and other results of the group work and the date of a subsequent meeting. ( See also: Results protocol, history log )

Methodology

Among the technical tools at meetings today belongs next to the magnet and whiteboard, a video projector or partly still in use the overhead projector, flipchart and whiteboard can be developed in the group together on those presented ideas and concepts and / or.

Methodologically, one uses in meeting large groups of a moderator who does not necessarily have to be in the trade, but communication techniques mastered, which are geared to collect various opinions or strategies, the core expose this to compress the common denominator to it under constant involvement of the participants to come to a carried along by many participants as possible result.

For smaller meetings, often leads the supervisor in this process. Team meetings in a non- hierarchical institutions often choose the specialist or the expert advice of the item to the moderator.

The organization and invitations to meetings happen in larger organizations often personal information manager software, which will help to time and scheduling.

Critical commentary

At meetings, a great use of phrases and anglicisms is often criticized and so spoke regulated meetings therefore satirized as Buzzword Bingo. Thus, in the German language is often already in place of the word " meeting" the anglicism or phrase borrowed from the English used " Meeting".

Accruals

• Meetings as part of all - or multi-day events on a larger scale and with more participants are called meeting, conference, congress or symposium.
• Meetings and exchange of researchers and their chance for discussion on a larger scale are referred to as Scientific Conference.