3 Ways To Improve Your Meetings
Mike Agugliaro
"After $500M in Sales, Two 8-Figure Exits, Authoring 28 books, speaking on top stages and 4 decades in Martial Arts: I have learned how to help business owners create Life, Business, and Wealth by Design"
Who loves meetings? Ha! Not surprisingly, almost no one raised their hands. Well in this blog post I will share with you 3 powerful ways to improve your meetings. Just do these 3 things for the rest of the quarter and see how they improve your company meetings.
It might even be possible for your team to actually ENJOY the meetings… for them to become productive high points of your week instead of hassles.
But right now? People dread meetings because they fail to see the point of them. They only view it as taking away from the time that they could be doing something better. For most of the time, when you have a meeting, you're probably saying something like: “Meet in the meeting room. Be there at 10:00 AM.” And that’s it. They go to the meeting not knowing what to expect. Worse yet, some companies have meeting regularly that do not feel productive or helpful, so the staff has become conditioned that 10 o'clock every Thursday is a meeting but they are not excited about it. Have you ever noticed how these meetings kind of fizzle out? You talk about stuff and there are no action items at the end of the meeting. Nothing productive happens because you do not have the right positioning for the meeting.
Here’s how to fix that…
Tip #1. Name Your Meeting
Your meetings need to be positioned to set expectations. To do that, give your meetings a name that sets the expectation.
In the service business that my business partner and I built, we called our meetings “Level 10 meetings.” That means you can't come in all groggy and sloppy. You have to come in with a level 10 of energy! When your energy and your physiology is up, you're ready. That's when the strategic moves happen, when people come with their best every time!
Even if I'm on the phone with my vendor and we're having a meeting, they know that it’s a Level 10 meeting because I’ve said so earlier. They know we are in there to play hard and that this is not a social gathering. (If we want to be social, then we can go out for dinner and be social after work).
But for your meetings? Name them and set expectations of POWER and ENERGY!