How To Use Business Meetings To Generate Ideas?
How to use business meetings to generate ideas?
As the leading role in the office you are accountable to develop various ideas to market your product.
Following are some of the tips to create ground-breaking ideas by making use of most important ‘M’ i.e.manpower in our business.
Plan Your Meeting.
Generate ideas through a meeting is a traditional method. Before taking actual meeting plan your meeting.Success of your meeting depends on this planning. Think in your mind about below mentioned questions
• Why you need some new ideas?
• Is this idea will help to improve the internal process?
• Is this idea is helpful to increase our business?
• Is this idea is helpful in our marketing plan?
Answer those questions and create format for the meeting, which you can break into timeframe activities. On the basis of this study create a brief note about this meeting and send it to your employees.Fix meeting date on the basis of availability of the employees.Send formal invitation to the employees.
Boss’s Role at the meeting:
At the beginning of the meeting give short brief about the meeting subject which needs new ideas.
Start with the meeting activity which already divided into specific timeframe.Start discussion after the introduction about the topic.
Employees Role in the meeting:
Employee’s role is to generate as many ideas as they can suggest on that particular subject.To fit this task into timeframe we can ask them to spend 20-25 minutes for thinking on this subject and then write down the idea on the piece of paper.
Make study of the Ideas:
As a meeting conducting authority collect all the ideas, ask one by one each employee to explain his thinking / idea within 5-10 minutes.
Select the suitable Idea:
Make selection of most suitable idea from the ideas.You can allocate 20 minutes for discussion on the suitable idea if you come out with more than one suitable idea.
List down the actions required:
This is the last step in meeting, list down all the required actions to make us of this idea into our business plan.
All the meeting activates should be timeframe base or this meeting will create chaos.At the end of the meeting explain the next plan of action and next meeting to evaluate the outcome of this idea.