- Your meetings gain depth.
When you decide on a specific topic, the presentations and conversations take on more meaning. Participants and speakers automatically enter uncharted territory with a specific and bold purpose of the session. As a result, they learn and contribute more.
- Making choices becomes easy.
A specific goal helps you enormously with the practical organisation of the event. You will know who to invite, whether you are holding the meeting online or partly on location, who needs to speak, and whether translation is needed. In addition, you can be more creative with the props, activities, music, and images of the event.
- Your participants can keep their focus.
A clear demarcation makes your session shorter and more effective. A challenging central question holds attention. People listen to each other, share what they think, and leave the online meeting with energy.
How do you recognise a specific and bold goal?
Do not confuse the type of meeting with the purpose or goal of the meeting.
For example, a birthday party is a kind of gathering. If you want to formulate a boring goal, it is ‘marking a new year of life’. It gets more specific and daring when you set a goal like ‘reconnect with college friends whom I’ve only seen once since COVID started.’