Transform Your Meetings: From Transactional Tetris to Strategic Decisions

Our days have become a game of transactional Tetris.... Where can I slot in this or that for a meeting?

Each day We are face with limited time, lots of tasks to accomplish that are compressed in limited time because of distraction and noise.

Some of this noisy is actually coming from meetings.

Most meetings are nothing more than updates on what has happened in the past, leaders should have meetings only for make better foward-facing decisions.

While reading a book I found a good discriminator... a way to distinguish whether a meeting should be held or not. This is accomplished by answering the following question:

"What is the problem we're trying to solve, or the opportunity we're trying to capture, and how can each of us help?"

Here are my notes and learning on this to apply to my day-to-day work:

• Meetings should always have a clear purpose
• If you don't have a clearly defined agenda to the meeting. Don't do it.
• Ask yourself: "is it possible to replace this meeting with an email?"
• Avoid excessive with high numbers of participant meetings
• Define the problem to solve.
• Try to estimate the cost of a meeting, this well help to understand the cost of having people sitting in a meeting away from their priorities.

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