Steve reduced hi meetings from 150 minutes to 40 minutes https://youtu.be/AR578wTP2HI
I had a client who had a requirement to formally meet with the workforce once a week. It could best be described as a cross between a toolbox meeting and…
Here's an idea to put in your toaster and see what pops up. Halve the frequency of your meetings. Right now. Just try it. If you currently meet every week,…
Are you and your team "Yes but" people, or "Yes and" people? Do you naturally tend to say "yes and" or do you naturally say "yes but"? The answer to that…
Every meeting has a rhythm, a pace, sometimes called the cadence. Surprisingly, it’s not always the person running the meeting. But it should be. In almost every piece of music,…
QUESTION - A vacancy occurred on a committee and a man said his wife would be happy to fill it. The committee was in need of new members, so the…
Bite the bullet on people who are deadwood in your organisation Recently I was working with a client and had an interesting conversation with a senior manager. The client was…
The humble traffic light - green, amber, red - is a quick and powerful way to find out what people really think about the meetings they attend. It's simple. Ask…
Some people justify their salary by having meetings. But are the meetings effective? Today I had an interesting meeting with a senior business person with experience across a lot of…
Why the difference between misinformation and disinformation in meetings matters The meaning of misinformation is often merged with that of disinformation, but they are not interchangeable. You cannot put them…
Everyone was surprised at how we managed to get so many people to vote at a community association meeting. It's all about getting your ducks in a row! This week…
It’s been calculated that the “average” adult makes 35,000 decisions every day. It seems a bit high to me but who am I to argue with esteemed researchers. But let’s…
In every workplace, on virtually any day, there will be one, six, ten, a hundred meetings and every one will be “led” by someone. Whether that person sees themselves as “chairing” the meeting or not, the other people do. And so every day throughout the world there are tens of thousands of people chairing meetings – it is perhaps the most common universal activity which occurs in workplaces in every part of the globe every working day.
Virtually everyone in the working world attends meetings at some stage. Staff meetings, management meetings, planning meetings, information meetings, update meetings … they are apparently endless. Research conducted in Australia…