Drive Change with Great Meetings
Adrian Pask
Manufacturing Digital Transformation Strategist | Consumer Goods Digital Manufacturing Leader
No doubt you collect quite a bit of information about your manufacturing process. Many people struggle to find the best way to leverage that information.
How do you effectively use information to drive change? To improve?
The pivot between information and action is focus - the moment in time when information is reviewed and a course of action is decided. This often involves meetings.
How are your meetings? Good? Not so good? Are they more "red" or more "green"?
If your meetings could use improvement - we have ideas for you. Best practices that have helped us dramatically improve the effectiveness of our meetings.
What Is A Great Meeting?
Great Meetings are organized, focused, fast, positive, participative, and proactive. Participants come prepared and leave energized. Great Meetings result in decisions and action. They result in change. They leverage small groups of people to make decisions and transform those decisions into concrete actions. A Great Meeting combines accurate information with strong leadership to leverage that information into actions and results.
The challenge is to create a culture where Great Meetings become the norm. We created a simple "kit" to help you achieve this. It's really easy to use and includes three items:
Learn About Great Meetings
A two-page executive summary that captures the essence of Great Meetings. We describe what they are, why they are important, how to create an effective agenda and how to run an effective meeting. Plus we include our top 10 key insights on effective meetings. All in just two pages!
Schedule a Great Meeting
Step-by-step instructions for creating a meeting template in Outlook that sets the stage for a Great Meeting.
> Download Outlook Instructions
Hold a Great Meeting
A two-page form with a fill-in-the-blanks Agenda and Action Plan. Includes tips for each part of the process and a Guidelines section with 23 characteristics of a Great Meeting. Use the guidelines to establish expectations and to score your meeting effectiveness.
Can We Help You?
We are passionate about improvement and we love to learn. So if you have any ideas or insights to share - we would love to hear from you. Here are two specific ways we can help:
- Great Meetings: If this email has stuck a chord and you would like to talk about it - contact me. I genuinely love to help people.
- Help with XL: If you have any questions about XL - we are ready to help. We want you to succeed - preferably far beyond your wildest expectations. We can also brainstorm ideas on how to best leverage XL and drive significant improvement at your company.