Meetings are a Window to Your Culture
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Meetings happen more often than ever and cause as much consternation and complaining as ever, if not more. Yet despite all that hand-wringing and general disdain, we may be missing the biggest problem with them. Have you thought about the connection between meetings and team culture??
As I’ve said many times (and we wrote about in The Long-Distance Team , “Culture is the way we do things around here.” Since meetings are often where communication, collaboration, and decisions happen, they are a significant part of your culture.
How Are Your Meetings?
With the right examination, meetings can tell you a lot about your culture. And not just your in-meeting culture, but your overall culture as well.
Whether your meetings are awful, mediocre, or awesome, these questions can help with that examination, giving you some tangible talking points about the often-elusive topic of culture.?
Meetings and Culture
Beyond these questions (and others you might think of), I have three other bigger questions for you to consider. They are related to our 3C Model for Team and Culture Design:
Simply remembering the connection between meetings and team culture is a start. Using these questions can give you a better way to look at more than meetings, but also your culture. Thinking about these questions yourself is helpful. I encourage you to share and discuss them as a team as well. It can be a powerful way to start intentionally creating the culture you want on your team and in your organization.?
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It’s Your Turn
What do your meetings tell you (good and bad) about your culture?
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