Meeting Reflection

Our meeting was conducted at 08:10 am on Tuesday, 27^th of October 2010. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss student success in the college. My role in the meeting was the chairman. Therefore, my job was to run the meeting in proper way. All group members attended the meeting. I started the meeting by welcoming the attendees and describing the problem. My task was to find possible solution regarding this issue by asking the team members to contribute their own ideas.

 Our meeting was great, well prepared and went smoothly. The opening and the closing of the meeting were professionally done. In addition, the meeting direction was very clear and comprehensible. However, there are some aspects need to be improved. I noticed that when we were discussing a point everybody agreed where we should look to it from different perspectives like one person agree and the other disagree for different reasons. Managing the time allotted for each point also needs to be monitored more carefully so we don’t spend much time on unnecessary ideas.

In conclusion, this meeting was a new experience for me. It was very exciting and I learned a lot from this experience. I learned how to run a practical meeting in appropriate way by being punctual and focused to the meeting purpose to save time. Moreover, I learned write an agenda and how to contribute an action plan. Form this experience, I have gained self-confidence and now I can speak in front of people confidently. In the next meeting I hope to avoid the mistakes that had been done and improve my meeting skills to have a professional meeting that accomplish its purposes in order to achieve effective results.