AN ANALYSIS OF BUSINESS MEETING VIDEO

Video 

Title                 : Part 2 - How to Conduct Successful Meeting
Published date : June, 30^th 2014
Published by   : United Teachers
Source             : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hSiQ51dhjA

Result of Analysis

This video is about United Teachers Los Angeles and The American Federation of Teachers present Part 2 in a series on "How to Conduct a Successful Meeting". This video shows how an organized meeting can achieve consensus and accomplish the goals set by the agenda.

There are many reasons why this video can be an example of a good and effective meeting. Below are the explanations:

1.      All participants already got the agenda, so they know what is going to be discussed.

2.      The leader of the meeting opens the meeting with greeting everyone and recalls the decision of the last meeting.

3.      The leader also tells the rules of the meeting so participants will pay the attention to the meeting issues which is about choosing the education technology media for student between iPad and PCs because the district open it up so that the meeting can make some changes to how they did their budget of three hundred dollars for student.

4.      Then the leader asks the participant one by one to give the opinion about the issues they have. Therefore, there is no monopoly in the meeting because all participants of the meeting have the same rights to share their opinion. Besides, when one person is telling his or her opinion, the others listen it carefully and appreciate the opinion.

5.      The leader of the meeting controls the meeting very well so the meeting run conductively.

6.      The leader gives advice or alternative idea for each opinion that the participants deliver in the meeting.

7.      The arguments based on fact and not emotional opinions.

8.      When the decision has been made, the leader asks all participants if there is anybody that could not live with the decision or are they have any other thing they want to talk.

9.      The leader close the meeting with concluding the result of the meeting.

Based on its purpose, we can conclude that the meeting is a problem solving meeting. Because, the purpose of the meeting is to solve the problems about education technology media for student. Meanwhile, based on the characteristics of a successful meeting, this meeting can be categorized as successful meeting, because the meeting is organized, focused on the topic, all participants give opinion and the decision is taken by all participants.

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Discussed by: Asri, Ismadanti, Margaretha, Rahmaluttifah, Talitha, and Stacia (3SA01)