B2 – Upper Intermediate
As professionals we’ve had our share of endless meetings. Some were productive but some were pointless. The agenda is important but so are the people attending the meeting. It turns out that meeting participants can affect the mood or environment in a meeting.
Here is an article to help you identify what kind of meeting attendee you should and shouldn’t be.
Discussion Questions:
1. Have you recognized any of the types among your colleagues?
2. Are you any of these types?
3. What do you think is the worst kind of attendee?
4. Can you think of other type/s that you can add to the list?
2 replies on “Kinds of People You Don’t Want in a Meeting”
1. Have you recognized any of the types among your colleagues?
Yes, I do. The journalist describes 13 types of meeting attendees so it’s pretty tricky not be identified in one of them.
2. Are you any of these types?
Yes, I am. And not only one of them. In an endless meeting, you can be a silent observer, a phone checker or a wimp. But it doesn’t mean you’re not interested in or you haven’t prepared hardly the meeting.
3. What do you think is the worst kind of attendee?
I can’t stand up with Mr. “It’s All About Me”. Discuss details that only impact a person is pointless.
4. Can you think of other type/s that you can add to the list?
Maybe I’d add “the insecure”, that person who at the beginning of the meeting thinks in one way and after hours of hard discussion gives a point of view different. It gets me exhausted.
Always doing your best to express yourself is admirable. Keep up the good job.
What do you think about this structure?
The journalist describes 13 types of meeting attendees so it’s pretty tricky not be identified
inone of them.The writer describes 13 types of meeting attendees so it’s pretty hard not to be able to associate one of them with someone you know.
Until your next entry.