If you find that the meetings that you are participating in are taking much too long to generate solutions, you could try the following uncomfortable tactics to speed up the process. To improve the concentration and focus of participants in your meeting and to promote decision making expediency, you could try leaving the air conditioning off (for a very quick meeting to discuss one or two issues) or you could simply remove all the chairs from the meeting room.
It is not a good idea to meet just before home time if you want a participative meeting that encourages all points of view leading up to a well thought out decision. Meetings that take place just before ‘home-time’ only encourage the majority of participants to become silent and agreeable as they want to go home. You might find that they will simply agree with the comments of one participant rather than being objective about them. However, when you have bad news to communicate and you are not looking for participative communication you can meet just before closing time. This act of timing the meeting prevents the office gossips from pouring petrol on a small spark of negativity as everyone is keen to get home. Once home they usually get to thinking about the message and often realize that it is not such a big deal after all and return to the workplace accepting the new status quo.
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