Feedback On Non-recurring Meetings

Because meetings are flow-state interrupters, companies should have a process for improving the quality of all meetings, including non-recurring meetings.

After every non-recurring meeting, a survey should be sent to everyone who attended the meeting, asking some questions:

• Did the meeting start on time?
• Did the meeting end on time?
• Do you understand the purpose of this meeting?
• Do you feel that this meeting met its stated purpose?
• Based on the average fully burdened salary of the attendees, the cost of this meeting (not counting opportunity cost) was $<put cost here>. Do you think that cost was justified?
• Is there any information communicated during the meeting that should be communicated by some other means (for example, in email)?
• Which of the following actions would have improved the meeting (check as many as apply)?:
• Add ______ to the agenda.
• Remove ______ from the agenda.
• Change the allocated time to ______.
• Reduce the number of attendees.

Meeting ratings should be considered in employee's annual reviews.