How Many Types of Meetings?
December 7th, 2011Although experts frequently suggest that effective PowerPoint presentations should not include “bullet points” or presenters should only be using less then 15 slides – these rules are just guidelines depending on the type of meeting. If you have an hour to persuade an audience of 500 that your Fortune 500 company is a good investment, that is a different type of meeting than if you have 10 minutes to pitch your new startup to a group of angel investors.
The type of meeting is an important factor which helps determine the content, number and type of slides that will help you get the results you need. I thought I’d try and come up with a comprehensive list of types of meetings. Please comment or email me if you can suggest additional types meetings. Here’s my list:
| Board Meetings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brainstorming Meetings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Breakout meetings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Combination meetings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Conference call meetings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Emergency Meetings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Evaluation Meetings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event Planning Meetings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feedback Meetings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Financial Review meetings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Financial Update Meetings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Meetings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Holiday Meetings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Information sharing meetings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Introduction Meetings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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January 23rd, 2012 at 6:10 am
Great post! Another category could be ‘Marketing Meetings’. I used to have these once a month and it would last for 6 hours… Such a long meeting!
January 30th, 2012 at 2:11 pm
A good one. How about a marketing meeting about events and conferences as a marketing tool. This would be a marketing meeting about meetings