How to Improve a Dysfunctional Meeting Culture Without Removing the Chairs
This is a follow-on to my recent rave against the time-wasting, dysfunctional debating society events that masquerade as meetings in many corporate settings. My drive to momentarily stay on my "effective-meeting" soapbox was galvanized yesterday, when I spoke with a good friend who had just started a new job. Her first day coincided with an operations meeting that she described as an all day rugby scrum where everyone got bloody, but no one scored.
Leader: Are Your Meetings Straight Out of A Dilbert Comic Strip?
Consider the last team meeting that you attended or led:
-Was the agenda well organized?
-Did problems and polite (or not so polite) bickering dominate the airtime?
-Did people show up with an agenda of their own?
-Were the same topics that were debated in the last meeting still being debated in this meeting?
-Was much time spent on discussing ideas to create value for the firm and stakeholders? Was there substantive progress or even agreement on problems and priorities?
-How good was the action plan that came from that meeting?
-Was it clear who owned what follow-up and in what time frame?
-Did people leave feeling like their questions were answered and their priority clear?
-Were meeting notes promptly distributed?
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