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Five
Steps to Flawless Meetings
"If
you can change your meetings, you can begin to change
your culture." (p.88, Working at Warp Speed)
These
five simple steps can make any meeting much more effective:
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Have
an agenda with the amount of time you will spend
on each item specified. |
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Ask
meeting participants to create a list of behaviors that
reduce meeting effectiveness and then generate a set
of ground rules to overcome them. |
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Status
review meetings often get bogged down when two or three
people get carried away solving a technical problem
that does not concern others. Solution: separate
status review from problem solving. |
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Action
items tell people that the time they spend in meetings
actually produces results. Therefore: enforce action
items. |
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Conduct
an end-of-meeting evaluation: If you spend five
minutes at the end of every meeting asking people what
they liked about the meeting and what they would like
to improve, you will increase buy-in and continuously
improve your meetings. |
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This
month's theme:
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Our
warp speed lives pressure us to act ineffectively - even when
we know better. Let's look at why and what we can do about
it. |
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