Overview
Lesson 1: plan. What is the meeting intended to achieve? What would be the implication of not having the meeting? Tim answers to the court on the first charge, 'chairing without due thought and preparation'. This is the first of the five techniques of running effective meetings. Tim's running late and an all too familiar scene unfolds. No-one knows why they are meeting. The first thing they decide to do is write an agenda. In the absence of one individual, they have meetings between each other whilst the others sit and listen to discussions they aren't needed for. The judge asks Tim why they even had that meeting. Tim boldly defends himself by saying that they had it because it was the weekly meeting. But as there was nothing to talk about why didn't he cancel it? The judge then makes a comparison with his court: suppose he conducted his court that way? We see a scene where the accused is in the dock without being charged with anything - there is nothing specific to be decided upon.
