A MEETING is run by a chairperson and is generally decision oriented with everybody expected to have read the meeting papers and are prepared to make decisions.

A WORKSHOP has one or more facilitators, who are not generally domain experts but whose job is to make the workshop a success (i.e to move the project , organisation and people forward). Workshops generally contain a subject matter expert to guide the process through. Workshops are exploratory sessions, i.e. Ideas are generated (brainstorming), requirements are elicited, consensus gained and tasks allocated. Decisions are made in these sessions, however they are decisions based on brainstorming requirements.