I finished a project with a company within the top 20 of the Fortune 500 list. It may be just the HQ group I was working with, but this issue was probably endemic to the whole company. Meetings arranged by the client were mostly collosal wastes of time. They created no agendas and distributed no minutes - ever. Meetings rarely, if ever, resulted in action items. If action items were assigned, the results were never reported out; if you wanted to know the results, you had to track down the right person to ask. Incredibly frustrating. Fortunately for the company, its market success was not reliant upon the competency of its HQ staff.
I finished a project with a company within the top 20 of the Fortune 500 list. It may be just the HQ group I was working with, but this issue was probably endemic to the whole company. Meetings arranged by the client were mostly collosal wastes of time. They created no agendas and distributed no minutes - ever. Meetings rarely, if ever, resulted in action items. If action items were assigned, the results were never reported out; if you wanted to know the results, you had to track down the right person to ask. Incredibly frustrating. Fortunately for the company, its market success was not reliant upon the competency of its HQ staff.