Posted on October 1, 2008 - by Jeffrey Posner

Where to have a meeting

I had a meeting at Starbucks the other day (one of many that have been had there) and I started to think if the places I am meeting at have an effect on the outcome of the meeting itself. Now there have been many things written on this, studies done and tape sets made, but if you are reading this then you are here to get my opinion anyway…so here it is:

If you think it will break the meeting it will. If you go with it, then it probably won’t.

A few things this depends on…

• How comfortable you are in public situations?
• Can you control the meeting with outside distractions?
• Is there enough room for everyone you are with? (big issue in NYC public places)
• Will there be any note taking or paper signing?
• How long will the meeting be?

…and probably a few others I didn’t mention. All in all it comes down to your comfort level and ability to control the situation if its hectic. If you are good in those aspects then you can probably have a lot of successful meetings in public places. At least what I think has been successful being that I’m still on my way to the top