6 Tips for Effective Meetings

6 Tips for Effective Meetings

  1. Don’t Meet Unless There’s Productive Conflict Often, meetings fall into an unproductive, unhelpful dynamic where everyone violently agrees with each other. It’s like each person is the seventh in line to chime in and repeat, in their own...
The Easiest Way to Make Meetings Shorter

The Easiest Way to Make Meetings Shorter

I facilitated a couple of full-day meetings last week. In both, I implemented a simple process that made the discussions quicker and better. Try this structure to make your meetings shorter (and more effective). Why Meetings Are So Inefficient You’d need a page longer...
Benefits of Virtual Meetings

Benefits of Virtual Meetings

  We’re all getting pretty accustomed to virtual meetings these days, and I just want to take a minute to say that I love virtual meetings! They have so much going for them. I’m not saying we should use virtual meetings for everything, in this post I...
8 Alternatives to Having a Meeting

8 Alternatives to Having a Meeting

I love a good meeting, especially if its format is well-tailored to its content and purpose. But, wow, there are way too many meetings! Why is a meeting the default? There are a raft of topics that are better addressed (and progressed) using asynchronous or informal...
Six Reasons to Meet Without Your Boss Present

Six Reasons to Meet Without Your Boss Present

Most teams I work with meet regularly. The routine is usually the same: the team leader calls the meeting, owns the agenda, chairs the discussion, and gets what they need from the interaction. Occasionally, the boss is away, ill, or otherwise occupied. The question...