Effective Meetings

 Why effective meetings are important;

• IAGC has a critical role to fulfill on behalf of Geophysical Contractor Industry
• IAGC is a group of competitors pooling their resources to address common issues for collective benefit
• We facilitate the constructive participations of members to achieve common objectives
• This facilitation often comes by providing structure and context for member participation in value added areas
• Business is conducted in committees, which meet to organize themselves, set and reach goals, identify problems, set priorities, develop action plans, make decisions, share information, etc.
• We have limited staff/resources – IAGC is its members
• Member participation and involvement is the key element in IAGC’s successfully benefiting its members
• Ineffective/inefficient meetings waste member’s time

One of the criticisms of IAGC is that we don’t have effective/efficient meetings – so people stop have stopped coming.

To address this, we are providing tools for conducting effective meetings, the context of why they are important and the challenge to use them

Now its up to you, the members, to ensure IAGC is efficient and effective.

Suggested sections of the Effective Meetings Module to consider including:

-Important structures of term meetings

-15 Minute Rule

-Meeting format elements

-Desired outcomes/major product areas of meetings

-Meeting plan template

-Meeting plan – other things to consider

-Meeting minute template

-Meeting roles

-Facilitation skills

-Facilitation behaviors

-Importance of checking, understanding and summarizing.