--- title: "Internal Meetings: Make Your Team Feel Valued" id: "37757" type: "post" slug: "internal-meetings-make-your-team-feel-valued" published_at: "2017-04-12T23:52:41+00:00" modified_at: "2026-11-09T16:22:36+00:00" url: "https://associationsnow.com/2017/04/12/internal-meetings-make-your-team-feel-valued/" markdown_url: "https://associationsnow.com/2017/04/12/internal-meetings-make-your-team-feel-valued.md" excerpt: "Create a sense of camaraderie by holding more attentive internal meetings. Also: How to bounce back from a hiring disaster." taxonomy_category: - "Meetings / Events" taxonomy_post_tag: - "AssociationsNow" - "Business" - "Data Management" - "Meetings" - "Mid-Level Professional" - "productivity" taxonomy_content_format: - "Article" taxonomy_role: - "Director" - "Manager" taxonomy_persona: - "Association Professionals" --- [Home](https://associationsnow.com/) » [Articles](https://associationsnow.com/format/article/) » Internal Meetings: Make Your Team Feel Valued Are you putting a ton of effort into making your team meetings more productive? *Harvard Business Review* recommends directing some of that effort toward making [internal meetings a quality experience for each attendee (opens in a new tab)](https://hbr.org/2017/04/how-to-design-meetings-your-team-will-want-to-attend) . According to writer Paul Axtell, a quality meeting is “when employees leave feeling more connected, valued, and fulfilled.” To make participants feel more appreciated, meeting leaders should start by thoroughly preparing for each meeting. “Preparation allows you to relax about leading the meeting and pay more attention to ‘reading the room’—noticing how people are doing as they walk in, and throughout the meeting,” writes Axtell. Other suggestions include demonstrating empathy by asking thoughtful questions, and slowing down the pace of the meeting so that everyone can be included and heard. ### Strategic Hiring > Here’s what a CEO learned from a hiring disaster. > Can your [#hiring (opens in a new tab)](https://twitter.com/hashtag/hiring?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) > process do with an overhaul?[https://t.co/LYUIY7ZEbq (opens in a new tab)](https://t.co/LYUIY7ZEbq) > > — Future Value (@FVCTweets) [April 12, 2017 (opens in a new tab)](https://twitter.com/FVCTweets/status/852144615079727104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) **When Baron Schwartz’s young startup was facing a tight deadline,** he quickly hired a bunch of employees who ended up being a terrible fit for his company. Schwartz shares the lessons [he learned from this “painful” experience in a recent Fast Company article (opens in a new tab)](https://www.fastcompany.com/40404060/five-new-rules-my-company-set-after-a-hiring-disasterv) . Now, he makes sure that his job descriptions are extensive and honest. “We even share which performance metrics we’ll be measuring,” says Schwartz. “This takes time and a lot of forethought, especially for newly created roles. But it’s worth all the effort.” Schwartz also says that he requests candidates take a personality assessment, and he puts a lot of emphasis on a potential hire’s track record. ### Other Links of Note **Good tweet, bad tweet.** *Esquire* reveals the fascinating [numerical way you can tell if a tweet is controversial (opens in a new tab)](http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a54440/twitter-ratio-reply/) . (Warning for the faint of heart: There’s some colorful language in this article.) **Be more efficient.** *Kivi’s Nonprofit Communications Blog* shares ways to [integrate your email newsletter and social media strategies (opens in a new tab)](http://www.nonprofitmarketingguide.com/blog/2017/04/11/stop-working-so-hard-integrate-your-e-news-and-social-media-strategies/) . **What exactly are associations, anyway?** Adrian Segar argues that [associations exist only in the mind (opens in a new tab)](http://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/associations-2/2017/04/associations-exist-only-in-the-mind/) . (iStock/Thinkstock) [Raegan Johnson](https://associationsnow.com/author/raegan-johnson/) Raegan Johnson is a contributor to Associations Now. 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