Business meetings are easy targets for ire and indignation. When they're bad, they're really bad. They can be unproductive, time-wasting, ambiguous, soul-sucking, inefficient, unclear, vague, chatty, and redundant. But they don't have to be.
In episode 6, Meeting Madness 1, we learned how to make meetings better by understanding the kind of meeting you’re running. In episode 14, we learned to speed up meetings by assigning roles. And in how to lead a meeting when you’re not the facilitator, we learned to make sure everything was under control. Your control.
If I facilitated every meeting, it would be different. People who have been in meetings with me start by cowering in fear at my impressively productive approach. But they come around, and before long, every meeting becomes a model of perfectly productive process. Or else.
While it’s impossible for me (or, “glorious me,” as I like to think of myself) to run every meeting for you, here are the top five things you can do in your next meeting to make things run smoothly. And because you are glorious you, devoted to all that is good in the world, I'm going to give you 20% more things than any other top-five list you've ever encountered. So hold on to your hats, because it's going to be a wild ride!
1. Have the Right People in the Room
When you’re calling a meeting, make sure you know who will attend and why. Meetings cost money. Someone is paying salaries for people to sit in a meeting. A one-hour meeting with six $80,000 salaried engineers costs around $240.
If you’re going to pay, at least make it count. Run through your proposed attendee list and ask yourself what each person will get out of the meeting. You’re inviting Sasha? Why?
Sometimes they need to be there for Reasons of Substance. Sasha needs information that will be shared. It’s a complicated issue. So sharing in person is best, as it lets Sasha ask questions and get clarification.
Or maybe decisions will be made. Sasha needs to be there to give input into the decision. Or perhaps Sasha will be in charge of carrying out the decision, and needs to understand the reasoning behind it.
These are Reasons of...
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