• Czech: setkání
• Finnish: tapaaminen
• French: rencontre
• German: Treffen
• Hebrew:
• Indonesian: temu
• Interlingua: incontro
• Japanese: 会 (かい, kai)
• Portuguese: encontro
• Slovene: srečanje
• Spanish: encuentro
• Telugu: సమావేశం (samaavesham)
• Volapük: kolköm

• Finnish: sauma, yhtymäkohta, risteyskohta (place)

• ttbc Czech: schůze
• ttbc German: Treffen
• ttbc Hebrew: ,
• ttbc Interlingua: reunion
• ttbc Italian: riunione
• ttbc Kurdish:
• ttbc Portuguese: reunião
• ttbc Slovene: sestanek , srečanje
• ttbc Spanish: reunión
• ttbc Telugu: సమావేశం (samaavesham)
• Volapük: kobükam

• French: réunion
• German: Sitzung , Besprechung
• Hebrew: ,
• : rapat, meeting
• Interlingua: meeting
• Italian: riunione
• Japanese: 会議 (かいぎ, kaigi) / ミーティング (mītingu)
• Kurdish:
• Portuguese: reunião
• Slovene: sestanek
• Spanish: reunión ; mitin , mítin italbrac Latin America; junta
• Telugu: సమావేశం (samaavesham)
• Volapük: büsidakolköm

• ttbc Azerbaijani: görüş
• ttbc Chinese: 会见 (huì jiàn)
• ttbc Dutch: vergadering , bijeenkomst , zitting
• ttbc Norwegian: møte
• ttbc Thai: ประชุม การสังสรรค์
• ttbc Welsh: cyfarfod

Verb

meeting

1. present participle of meet

In a meeting, two or more people come together for the purpose of discussing a (usually) predetermined topic such as business or community event planning, often in a formal setting.

In addition to coming together physically (in real life, face to face), communication lines and equipment can also be set up to have a discussion between people at different locations, e.g. a conference call or an e-meeting.

In organizations, meetings are an important vehicle for and personal contact human communication. They are so common and pervasive in organizations, however, that many take them for granted and forget that, unless properly planned and executed, meetings can be a terrible waste of precious resources.

Because of their importance, a career in professional meeting planning has emerged in recent years. In addition, the field of Meeting Facilitation has formalized with an internationally-recognized "Certified Professional Facilitator" designation through the International Association of Facilitators (IAF)

Types of meetings

Meetings may be divided into many categories:

1. Status Meetings, generally Leader-led, which are about reporting by one-way communication;
2. Work Meetings, which produce a product or intangible result such as a decision
3. Staff meeting -- typically a meeting between a manager and those that report to the manager (possibly indirectly).
4. Team meeting -- a meeting among colleagues working on various aspects of a team project.
5. Ad-hoc meeting -- a meeting called together for a special purpose
6. Management meeting -- a meeting among managers
7. Board meeting -- a meeting of the Board of directors of an organization
8. One to one meeting -- a meeting between two individuals
9. Off-site meeting -- also called "offsite retreat" or "retreat" and known as an Awayday meeting in the UK
10. Kick-off Meeting-- is the first meeting with the project team and the client of the project to discuss the role of each team member
11. Pre-Bid Meeting-- is a meeting of various competitors and or contractors to visually inspect a jobsite for a future project. The meeting is normally hosted by the future customer or engineer who wrote the project specification to ensure all bidders are aware of the details and services expected of them. Attendance at the Pre-Bid Meeting may be mandatory. Failure to attend usually results in a rejected bid.
12. Pre-Construction Meeting-- To be added....

Meeting styles

• stand-up meeting
• breakfast meeting
• off-site meeting
• lunch meeting

Meeting frequency options

Since a meeting can be held once or often, the meeting organizer has to determine the repetition and frequency of occurrence of the meeting. Options generally include the following:

• A one-time meeting is the most common meeting type and covers events that are self-contained. While they may repeat often, the individual meeting is the entirety of the event. This can include a 2006 conference. The 2007 version of the conference is a stand-alone meeting event.
• A recurring meeting is a meeting that recurs periodically, such as an every Monday staff meeting from 9:00AM to 9:30 AM. The meeting organizer wants the participants to be at the meeting on a constant and repetitive basis. A recurring meeting can be ongoing, such as a weekly team meeting, or have an end date, such as a 5 week training meeting, held every Friday afternoon.
• A series meeting is like a recurring meeting, but the details differ from meeting to meeting. One example of a series meeting is a monthly "lunch and learn" event at a company, church, club or organization. The placeholder is the same, but the agenda and topics to be covered vary. This is more of a recurring meeting with the details to be determined.

Further reading

Merianne Liteman, Sheila Campbell, Jeffrey Liteman, Retreats that Work: Everything You Need to Know About Planning and Leading Great Offsites, Expanded Edition, ISBN 0-7879-8275-X

See also

• Action item
• Agenda
• conference room
• Event Planning and Production
• International Congress Calendar
• Meeting system
• Minutes
• Official trip
• Organizational development
• Quaker meeting for worship
• Scientific meeting
• Task list
• Meeting point
• Facilitation

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