• When have you felt most satisfied with a meeting you attended? Why?
• When have you felt most dissatisfied with a meeting you attended? Why?
• How would you complete the following: I [usually, almost always, often, almost never, never] enjoy meetings that I attend. Provide reasons for your answer.
• If you were writing guidelines about how to facilitate a meeting, what would they be?

The paper should be a minimum of two pages

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A meeting may be defined as a formal or non-formal interactive gathering of two or more people that have been held with aim of discussing issues and problems for decision making. For some people in the organization, the mention of the word meeting creates fear and in fact, they consider meetings less important and as a form of time wasting and lacking goal-oriented outcome. However, meetings are essentially very important. Meetings provide a platform for brainstorming in that when people gather together, they can easily evaluate a scenario and come up with an informed decision. Meetings are also an important forum where stakeholders can raise opinions and suggestions. These are a few to mention about the importance of meetings. However, the key thing is about the satisfaction felt in a meeting. Satisfaction from meetings has been a very critical variable in an organization as there is no casual parameter of measuring meetings satisfaction.(806words)