The meeting's goals go beyond merely reviewing action items and progress updates, though. It might be used as a forum to talk about objectives and goals as well as to share best practises, according to Norman Eisen, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former senior ethics and government affairs lawyer in the Obama White House. Senior officials typically utilise meetings as a platform for speeches, observations, and the outlining of their intended course of action before either approving them or denouncing them if they are not followed out, according to Eisen. Meetings are opportunities to understand and decide, says Mark Malloch-Brown, a former minister and UK ambassador to the UN.Having conversations with their coworkers and neighbours.