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Explore meeting types, their purposes, and strategies to transform workplace meetings into productive and engaging sessions.
Meetings are essential for communication, collaboration, and decision-making in the workplace. Yet, poorly run meetings are a common source of frustration, wasting time and draining energy. Organizations can transform meetings into productive and engaging sessions that add value and tailor them to their purpose and audience.
This guide explores various types of meetings, their purposes, and best practices for running them effectively, helping HR professionals, managers, team leaders, and business owners create a meeting culture that drives success.
Meetings play a vital role in:
However, common complaints such as unproductive agendas, unclear goals, or irrelevant attendees can derail meetings. To address these challenges, organizations must plan and execute meetings with clear intent.
Purpose: Regular updates, aligning on goals, and building team cohesion.
Best Practices: Share an agenda in advance, encourage team members to contribute, and ensure everyone leaves with clear action items.
Purpose: Discuss and decide on significant matters with stakeholder input.
Best Practices: Provide background materials beforehand, facilitate balanced discussions, and use voting or consensus to finalize decisions.
Purpose: Generating creative ideas and solutions.
Best Practices: Create a judgment-free environment, use tools like mind mapping, and appoint a facilitator to keep ideas flowing.
Purpose: Addressing specific challenges and finding resolutions.
Best Practices: Clearly define the problem, involve relevant experts, and use data to guide decisions.
Purpose: Personal development, feedback, and relationship building.
Best Practices: Prepare discussion points, actively listen, and set follow-up goals to track progress.
Purpose: Establishing goals, timelines, and task assignments for projects or initiatives.
Best Practices: Use project management tools, assign responsibilities clearly, and confirm timelines.
Purpose: Building skills and knowledge among employees.
Best Practices: Use interactive methods, provide materials for reference, and gather feedback to improve future sessions.
Purpose: Company-wide updates and alignment.
Best Practices: Share major announcements, celebrate achievements, and include time for Q&A.
Purpose: Review completed projects to identify lessons learned.
Best Practices: Discuss what went well, what could improve, and how to apply insights to future projects.
Purpose: Exploring new ideas and out-of-the-box thinking.
Best Practices: Encourage diverse perspectives, challenge assumptions, and test concepts with small experiments.
Meetings, when well-planned and executed, are powerful tools for communication and productivity. By understanding the purpose behind each meeting type and adopting best practices, organizations can create a meeting culture that maximizes engagement and drives meaningful outcomes.
Schedule a demo with Assembly and we can evaluate your current meeting practices and help you implement strategies to transform your employee engagement into a cornerstone of workplace success.
Business meetings include team meetings, brainstorming sessions, planning meetings, status meetings, client meetings, and training sessions, among others.
Define clear objectives, create a focused agenda, invite relevant participants, and ensure actionable follow-ups.
Meetings facilitate communication, enable collaboration, promote decision-making, and align teams on goals.
Prepare thoroughly, manage time well, encourage participation, and document action items for accountability.
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There is study after study showing that employee recognition leads to increased engagement. This in return creates an environment where employees are happier and more motivated which increase productivity and reduces voluntary turnover significantly. In order to filled critical roles, companies tend to spend nearly twice the value of an annual salary. Assembly is an investment in your employees that supports your bottom line.
Yes, we will offer contracts for companies with longer-term agreements to help larger customers have more certainty around future costs.
The minimum agreement term is a 12-month subscription.
We do and for FREE! Any new customer needing further support to get started with Assembly to ensure you're set up for success can request custom onboarding support. Improving your employee experience is about much more than just using our amazing software; it’s about transforming your business to create a workplace that people love. That’s much easier to do with the personal support and advice from our passionate people experts.
At the time of redemption (when your employees exchange their points for a paid reward) you'll pay face value. If a reward is a $10 Amazon gift card, your cost will be $10. All paid rewards are billed for on a monthly basis.
The good news is that you don't have to pay for rewards upfront because we only charge you when points are redeemed, not when they're earned.
We offer discounts or educational or charitable organizations. In order to secure a discount, you'll first need to book a demo with a customer support specialist.
For all other organizations, we are willing to consider longer-term agreements in exchange for discounts. To set up annual plans or longer, you will need to book a demo with a customer support specialist.
If you're on a month to month plan, you can go here and cancel anytime. If you're having concerns or need help setting up your account for success, you can always book a demo with a customer support specialist.
If you're on a longer-term custom plan, you'll need to reach out to your customer support specialist to cancel your account or email us at support@joinassembly.com.
Great question! You can customize your core values to match your organization's to boost and track alignment. You can change your currency from the 🏆 emoji (our default) to any emoji of your choice. You can swap our logo for your own. You can also set up company culture rewards such as, "Lunch with the CEO," "Buy a book on us," and so much more!
While we recommend a peer to peer set up where anyone in your organization can give or receive recognition, you can set up Assembly however you want. If you need to limit the people who can give or receive recognition, that's perfectly fine and can be done from your Admin, here.
Assembly connects to the tools your employees use every day to offer an easy, seamless experience with minimal change management.
Assembly has integrations with HCM/HRIS systems like ADP, Google, Office 365, and Slack. We also integrate with communication tools like Slack and Teams so you and your employees can access Assembly wherever they work now.
That depends on the company's permissions set up. That said, over 90% of the employees on Assembly's platform are recognized on a monthly basis. That means nearly every employee across all of our customers are receiving regular recognition from their peers, managers, or leadership. We're extremely proud of this.
They are not required. You can use Assembly without having rewards set up. However, we don't recommend it if you intend to have a high adoption and usage rate. You can always keep the costs down by offering internal culture rewards that are fulfilled by you internally.
No, you can remove allowances from anyone or everyone. It's up to you but we do recommend using points whether they're worth a real dollar value or not. Companies that use points have a much higher engagement rate even if those points don't exchange for real dollars.
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