Lots  of meetings are conducted by each organization every week. Often the  participants are senior/middle level executives. The cost of the time  spent by the participants is very high. Besides, if a meeting is a not  successful in achieving the objectives, the frustration and  interpersonal conflict add to the cost.   However, if meetings can  be held effectively, these are invaluable techniques of taking strong  decisions after thorough discussion. It’s necessary to understand for  the coordinators and even the CEO’s to have adequate knowledge of how to  make meetings effective and productive. The chairman of the meeting  plays a very important role for the efficacy of the meeting. Besides,  meetings must give a satisfaction of openly discussing the ideas which  you may have but you may not find an opportunity to express.   Thus while  on the one side we find that the poor meetings can be waste of expensive  time of the executives, on the other these can be very helpful. If the  ...