However, the meeting's objectives go beyond just going through action items and progress updates. According to Norman Eisen, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former top ethics and government affairs attorney in the Obama White House, it may offer a venue for discussing goals and best practises. Eisen claims that senior officials frequently discuss their intended course of action in meetings before endorsing them or criticising them if they are not carried through. Meetings provide individuals the chance to connect with their neighbours and coworkers, grasp the issue, and make decisions, according to Mark Malloch-Brown, a former minister and the United Kingdom's ambassador to the UN.