Many leaders do. Staff meetings, committee meetings, team meetings, project meetings, all-company meetings...the list goes on. Most of us can think of many meetings that were simply wastes of our time.
Time is too important to waste is bad meetings.
Do the people in your meeting want to be there? If not, maybe it's not a meeting that you need. Maybe there's another way to communicate your message. Maybe the work that is waiting is too important to wait.
We can like the feeling of having a meeting. It feels like we're doing something. But if we're not -- if we are delaying real work, maybe we don't need that meeting after all.
What scheduled meeting could you eliminate this week? Wouldn't it be nice to have that time to be...well, happy and more productive?
-- Doug Smithy
It seems like this is a week for finding better ways to communicate.Meetings,like any other task,must have a purpose and and a fined agenda.
ReplyDeleteSo true, David. And within that finely tuned agenda should be the goals and the processes for achieving those goals. Meetings don't succeed accidentally; they take careful planning and skilled facilitation.
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