Business meetings and training

With September being the end of the budget year with training for one of my clients, it gave us a little time to work on the business of what we do. Being a small company, Open Road Communications has prided itself on sticking to business fundamentals and avoiding countless meetings when unnecessary... However, this strategy session started with a few key goals (developing a new schedule, researching and introducing new courses for the year, and setting promotional dates to boost enrollments) and it accomplished them. Moreover, it gave us some time to develop new, off-the-map ideas which should prove ground-breaking when sufficient resources can be devoted to get them off the ground. More on that later.

The main point here, however, is that although open-ended meetings can often be "time-wasters" they can also provide one of the greatest things you get from training itself: inspiration to do something new.