I'm on a crusade against pointless meetings. Here are some of my favorite ways to reframe meetings so that they stay action-oriented. To win at this, just remember 3 P's: Purpose, People, Progress. 1. Purpose: What actions and decisions will this meeting facilitate? You must be...
Any meeting you have should be for one purpose and one purpose only: making and committing to a decision. Let me restate that: only hold meetings to make decisions and commit to those decisions as a group. [contextly_auto_sidebar id="XBgwKA29TzRGfkpdazCZOYR8ErbVTqqL"]Anything beneath that standard creates unnecessary...
It's no secret that I am not a fan of excessive meetings. A day full of back-to-back meetings is my personal hell, which I suppose would make a meeting-packed day with brief intermittent breaks my purgatory. [contextly_auto_sidebar id="h4El0jyXQzufBlj8fWg1Q9MdFMu3w0LK"]I recently wrote about the...
When it comes to meetings and making effective decisions, seven is the golden number. As the number of people in a meeting grows, the effectiveness begins to decline. [contextly_sidebar id="rOwqdC1tUK0RhyBcER0JyX014ydG3cWA"] In a study presented in Decide & Deliver: 5 Steps to Breakthrough Performance in Your Organization,...
How many of you actually like scheduling, planning for, and attending meetings? I know I don’t. But, I have found a system that eases that pain. It is called Do.com. What It Is: Do.com is an online platform that allows you to keep your meetings, participants and...
Traditionally, meetings were meant has a means to productively brainstorm, discuss upcoming project and make decisions. However, many meetings tend to have the opposite effect on employees involved as, too often than not, meetings tend to be boring, inefficient, and don't lead companies any closer to their goals....
