Christopher Whiteside MBE is currently chairman of Whitehaven & Workington Conservatives. He writes this blog in a personal capacity. He previously stood for parliament in Copeland and Leeds NE.
He has served as a County, City & District, Borough, Town and Parish councillor, and has also been a school governor and health authority member. He is currently an Egremont Town Councillor.
He lives and works in the North of England, dividing his time between Cumbria and Yorkshire.
its generally because people dont know HOW to have a meeting.
Now I work as a manager in the telecoms dept, I know this is something you will know a little something about.
So do you hold a meeting about doing a job in a meeting room? - NO! - You hold it in the switch room where you want the work done.
when you are trying to get a group of different people from different contracting companys to work together, do you have a meeting in a meeting room? - NO! - hold it in the canteen and buy the coffee, you will get so much more from everyone there.
Its people who book up meeting rooms to hold a meeting for the sake of having a meeting that are the problem, you even find people who book up a meeting room, to have a meeting to organise a meeting.
So i guess the way I work I do quite enjoy meetings, because I tend to invite the right people to the right place, and we just sort of 'get things done'
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Now I work as a manager in the telecoms dept, I know this is something you will know a little something about.
So do you hold a meeting about doing a job in a meeting room? - NO! - You hold it in the switch room where you want the work done.
when you are trying to get a group of different people from different contracting companys to work together, do you have a meeting in a meeting room? - NO! - hold it in the canteen and buy the coffee, you will get so much more from everyone there.
Its people who book up meeting rooms to hold a meeting for the sake of having a meeting that are the problem, you even find people who book up a meeting room, to have a meeting to organise a meeting.
So i guess the way I work I do quite enjoy meetings, because I tend to invite the right people to the right place, and we just sort of 'get things done'