Smart Meetings
High-Performance Management and Teams
Smart Meetings
The meetings people want to attend are those that are unstructured, meaning no Agenda or Minutes.
Aim to schedule meetings for late in the day as this encourages everyone to prepare beforehand and to be brief and to the point.
Method
Each person talks in turn to their items and issues but only to tell others things they ‘need’ to know. Questions are then asked, actions are agreed upon and noted by the person who has been talking. When all questions have been answered the next person talks. This process continues until everyone has spoken.
It is assumed by all that actions taken will be dealt with as a priority unless otherwise agreed. A mature team does not need to minute or track an individual’s actions, accepting an action is the same as making a commitment to do it, being trusted to do it with no need for follow-up.
Tips
The last person to arrive gets most of the allocated tasks.
No war stories that don’t add value.
Ban laptops, they are distracting, and the laptop user does not take on board the same quantity and quality of information as the user. who hand writes. (It’s a fact)
Stand rather than sit, this increases focus and dramatically shortens the length of the meeting.
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