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Are You Drowning in Meetings? It’s Not Necessary and Better If You Don’t
Efficient and effective meetings should be every manager’s or executive’s goal.
Most people, however, do not know how to get meetings to meet that criteria. So much time, talent and energy is wasted just sitting and blah, blah, blah. The worst part is that it’s allowed to go on. There is nothing more unproductive in an enterprise than poorly conducted meetings.
Look around the room in a meeting. Estimate how much everyone in that room is making per hour. Say, you have 8 people in a meeting, say at an average of $45 per hour, for one hour, that’s a meeting worth at least $360! Has the meeting been worth that to the organization?
4 Ways to Create Greater Accountability in Meetings
Meetings, in most corners, don’t have the best of reputations.
I often hear people say, “I’ve got to go to a meeting,” but I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone say, “I get to go to a meeting.”
Why?
Running Effective Meetings
Who likes to go to meetings? The majority of people dislike going to meetings because most meetings are not effective or efficient and feel like a waste of time. Despite this fact most companies and organizations have meetings and they should have meetings. They just need to be effective meetings.
There are a few ground rules that can help assure that your meetings are effective and produce results. First, you have to establish the goals and objectives of the meetings. Everyone needs to have a clear understanding of what you want to accomplish as a result of this meeting. Meetings can have a wide variety of purposes and goals. You may simply want to communicate information to the team. You may be trying to enhance the teamwork by involving your managers in developing goals and strategies for the organization.
Ten Tips For Productive Meetings – Rules of the Road
Our lives are full of meetings. We can’t seem to do without them. Business meetings, community meetings, organizational meetings, league meetings, etc., seem to be among the norm. So here are a ten tips or rules for the road for making all your meetings productive.
Tip 1 — Establish Purpose and Objective for the Meeting
Managing the Meeting From Hell! Facilitation Techniques to Manage Three Dysfunctional Personalities
Sherry couldn’t stop thinking about her last team meeting as she walked down the hall towards her office. Slamming her office door behind her, she let out an exasperated scream and looked for something the punch! Her team was driving her absolutely crazy and she channeled Scarlett O’Hara as she proclaimed, “I will never run a meeting like that again!” Her problem in a nutshell boiled down to three really difficult personalities that continually recurred on her team. These personalities were indeed a cancer not just infecting the team and its results but also spreading throughout the group and infecting the other team members as well.
Sherry needs an antidote… now!