There’s no replacing one on one live meetings with hi tech ones. Face to Face meetings is still the most popular form of business communication this days.  Based on our survey, executives and ordinary office personnel prefer meeting with people in person. Test messaging (SMS) came in second, phone calls came in third and 10% goes to email.

But still, so many meetings results to nothing.  With this time and age, we can’t afford to loose preciouse time in meetings, with nothing to accomplish.

Here’s a few tips on how to make your meetings more productive:

• Schedule meetings just before lunch so people will act quickly.
• Send out an agenda before the meeting.
• Invite the fewest number of people necessary.
• Only meet when absolutely necessary.

This tips avoids staffs from pretending to understand what is discussed or worst yet agree with their supervisors just to gain rank or status.