Do You Make These 9 Meeting Mistakes?

Do You Make These 9 Meeting Mistakes?:
There is a colossal amount of time wasted in meetings. When I was on the East Coast in July talking about how BAs Can Be Difficult People, meetings came up as a pain point over and over again.
Despite all the talk about improving meetings, there are some very common meeting mistakes. Correcting them can do wonders for your personal productivity and the productivity of everyone you interact with in your organization.
Let’s be sure you are not making any of these most common meeting mistakes!
#1 – Failure to visibly tie the meeting to a project milestone. The vast majority of the meetings you facilitate and participate in as a business analyst should be working meetings, which means real work gets done and progress gets made. You need to specifically connect the purpose of the meeting to project progress.

101 Fun Ways to Learn a Language

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