Run More Effective Meetings (Or Risk Your Career)
“I’m not exaggerating! It was just another useless meeting that ‘could have been an email’ and just wouldn’t end.”, grumbled my client who runs operations for a healthcare tech firm. No results were produced and he wondered why this cycle kept repeating.
If you’ve felt like this at one point during your career, there’s hope for more effective meetings. You’re not alone and the solutions in this article will help you greatly.
It is mindblowing what levels of madness we can create over time when ineffective habits and rules become common culture and an accepted status quo. Most people I speak to dread endless and unproductive meetings. When they consider what they truly spend their time on and how the time is used, they find a lot of room for improvement.
This reminds me of:
#thismeethingSHOULDHAVEbeenanemail
My client’s leadership team noticed that teams did not collaborate well and performance expectations were missed. When we looked into it, we realized that one component contributing to the sliding performance was how ineffective meetings were run.
