People attend meetings for a wide variety of reasons, including work, personal interests, and leisure activities.

Most people will have to participate in meetings at some point in their lives, and many people do so on a regular basis.

Meetings can take place at work, within an organisation, a sports group, a Parent Teachers Association, church group or one of many other committees.

Some meetings leave the participants feeling they have wasted their time as little has been achieved and this can be due to many reasons.  In this section we are going to look at the reasons why meetings may be less successful and provide help and advice to enable you to get the most out of the meetings you are involved with.