It seems as though meetings can generally be categorized into **one** of three basic types. Each type of meeting would have different [[Work Meeting Best Practices]]. A different type of agenda. Different supporting tools (eg a whiteboard vs a PowerPoint). I think “_this could have been an email_” syndrome occurs more often when the meeting _type_ is unclear, the meeting tried to mix types, or the wrong approach was taken for the type. # Structure-Keeping Stand-ups, other types of recurring meetings that provide a standard time to hook in communication tasks and/or other things that need to be done on a cadence. - Features: standard (agenda, standard attendees, typically shorter duration - Goal: stick to the agenda, do what’s necessary and not more # Presentational One person or group needs to brief others about a specific thing. - Features: visuals, one-sided, Q&A, short-to-medium duration - Goal: “so what” communication understood by audience # Working A collaborating teaming session working at a particular problem or a particular artifact together. - Features: problem-orientation, small size, longer duration - Goal: the discrete deliverable, with inputs from all **** ## Source - self ## Related - [[Structure Enables Improvement]] - [[Work Meeting Best Practices]]