Your reminder comes up on your computer that it’s time for your sales team meeting. Are you feeling energized or is this just another waste-of-time meeting on your schedule?

Sales meetings are fundamental to any successful sales operation. But recent studies show there is often misalignment when it comes to meeting effectiveness. Steven Rogelberg conducted a survey on industry professionals and found alarming statistics such as:

• 65% said meetings keep them from completing their own work
• 71% said meetings are unproductive and inefficient

With that in mind, you shouldn’t stick to your same-old meeting schedule just because that’s what you’re comfortable with. Openness to new strategies and ideas can benefit your team and the overall outcome of your sales meetings. That’s why we collected some highly-effective sales meeting ideas for you to try on for size.

Before we begin, let’s go over the basics that we don’t want…