Meetings can also be categorized according to its purpose or intention. Meeting participants who aim to alter a situation or attack an organizational problem and concern take on a problem-solving meeting. Decision-making meetings are conducted to generate or make a final and unanimous decision about an issue. If certain structuring and future resolutions need to be made, a planning meeting can be called.
When there is a need to make status reports and present new information, participants gather for a feedforward meeting. It is otherwise known as reporting and presenting. Feedback meetings are conducted when the purpose is to let individuals provide reactions and feedback to one or several participants on a certain presentation or project. The last type of meeting according to objective is called combination meeting wherein two or more of the meeting categories are applied in a single meeting session.