The meeting is not only for reporting on progress or going through action items, though. It may be used as a forum to discuss objectives and goals as well as to trade best practises, according to Norman Eisen, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former chief ethics and government affairs counsel in the Obama White House. Eisen noted that top officials routinely take advantage of meetings to make speeches, provide remarks, and lay out their preferred course of action before either supporting them or denouncing them if they are not implemented. Meetings, according to Mark Malloch-Brown, a former minister and ambassador for the UK to the UN, are opportunities to understand and make decisions.By speaking with their coworkers and neighbours, you achieve this.