A meeting is when two or more people come together to discuss one or more topics, often in a formal or business setting, but meetings also occur in a variety of other environments. Meetings can be used as form of group decision-making .
15-602: [REDACTED] Look up moot or moot point in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Moot may refer to: Mootness , in American law: a point where further proceedings have lost practical significance; whereas in British law: the issue remains debatable Moot court , an activity in many law schools where participants take part in simulated court proceedings moot,
30-414: A videoconference . One Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a meeting as "an act or process of coming together" - for example "as [...] an assembly for a common purpose [...]". Meeting planners and other meeting professionals may use the term "meeting" to denote an event booked at a hotel, convention center or any other venue dedicated to such gatherings. Anthropologist Helen B. Schwartzman defines
45-872: A meeting as "a communicative event involving three or more people who agree to assemble for a purpose ostensibly related to the functioning of an organization or group." For her, meetings are characterized by "multiparty talk that is episodic in nature, and participants either develop or use specific conventions for regulating this talk." The term "meeting" may refer to a lecture (one presentation), seminar (typically several presentations, small audience, one day), conference (mid-size, one or more days), congress (large, several days), exhibition or trade show (with staffed stands being visited by passers-by), workshop (smaller, with active participants), training course , team-building session and kick-off event . Common types of meeting include: Other varieties include breakfast meetings off-site meetings (or Awayday meetings in
60-659: A meeting or assembly building, traditionally to decide local issues Moot hill , a hill or mound historically used as an assembly or meeting place World Scout Moot , a gathering of older Scouts, mainly Rover Scouts, ages 18–26 from all over the world Entmoot , a gathering of Ents in The Lord of the Rings MoodleMoot , a gathering or conference relating to the Moodle Learning Management System Topics referred to by
75-401: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages moot [REDACTED] Look up moot or moot point in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Moot may refer to: Mootness , in American law: a point where further proceedings have lost practical significance; whereas in British law:
90-399: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Meeting A meeting refers to a gathering with a specific agenda and not just mere gathering of people casually talking to each other. Meetings may occur face-to-face or virtually, as mediated by communications technology, such as a telephone conference call , a skyped conference call or
105-535: The Rings MoodleMoot , a gathering or conference relating to the Moodle Learning Management System Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Moot . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moot&oldid=1161606273 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
120-451: The UK), and " stand-up meetings " where participants stand up to encourage brevity. Since a meeting can be held once or often, the meeting organizer has to determine the repetition and frequency of occurrence of the meeting: one-time, recurring meeting, or a series meeting such as a monthly "lunch and learn" event at a company, church, club or organization in which the placeholder is the same, but
135-414: The agenda and topics to be covered vary. In Russian, a "flying meeting" ( Russian : летучий митинг , romanized : letuchij miting ) is a hastily called brief meeting. Meetings have been studied using conversation analysis . Meetings are thought of as a distinct speech exchange system with different norms and rules. Participants may move in and out of the conversation exchange system during
150-509: The issue remains debatable Moot court , an activity in many law schools where participants take part in simulated court proceedings moot, the pseudonym for Christopher Poole (born c. 1988), founder of the anonymous imageboard 4chan.org The Moot , a discussion group of Christian intellectuals active in Britain from 1938 to 1947 See also [ edit ] Meeting (Old English (Anglo-Saxon): Moot ) Folkmoot Jamtamót ,
165-429: The meeting. A meeting will often have a chair who has some control over the discussion in the meeting. The chair may have a superior position in a social hierarchy or be appointed as a facilitator. The beginning of the meeting speech exchange system is often indicated by nonverbal cues, or stating the purpose of the meeting. In formal meetings, the chair has control over turn-taking in a conversation. In informal meetings
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#1732801676141180-472: The old assembly of Jämtland Witenagemot , the High Council of Anglo-Saxon England Moot hall , a meeting or assembly building, traditionally to decide local issues Moot hill , a hill or mound historically used as an assembly or meeting place World Scout Moot , a gathering of older Scouts, mainly Rover Scouts, ages 18–26 from all over the world Entmoot , a gathering of Ents in The Lord of
195-402: The participants often decide for themselves who turn taking functions with the chair occasionally intervening. Non-verbal communication with the chair may be used to take a turn. Often the chair will control the choice of topic of discussion, different chairs will control the conversation in different ways. A pre-closing formulation is an individual's summarization of the groups understanding of
210-411: The pseudonym for Christopher Poole (born c. 1988), founder of the anonymous imageboard 4chan.org The Moot , a discussion group of Christian intellectuals active in Britain from 1938 to 1947 See also [ edit ] Meeting (Old English (Anglo-Saxon): Moot ) Folkmoot Jamtamót , the old assembly of Jämtland Witenagemot , the High Council of Anglo-Saxon England Moot hall ,
225-405: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Moot . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moot&oldid=1161606273 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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