Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization
There are two major outcomes for any meeting: a human connection and a work product
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This question of how teams could meet happily day in and day out led me to the coaches. Leadership coaches, team coaches, personal coaches: “It’s all about relationships,” they explained. “If the people in the room can’t trust one another—if they’re anxious, worried, or angry, no amount of fancy facilitation will work. Building relationships
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This is another reason why I recommend teams work to banish the word “meeting” from their calendars. It’s a critical-thinking exercise. When you are forced to use a more specific name than “meeting,” you automatically think through what else you might call this thing. Then, with the Taxonomy as a handy cheat sheet, you can get to the clarity
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Using an agenda and sharing notes after a meeting are the equivalent of table manners. They provide just enough meeting etiquette to avoid embarrassment but not enough to bring mastery. You need to learn this stuff, just like you need to learn how to say “please” and “thank you.” But just because you know which fork to use for the salad, it doesn’t
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A meeting is an event where minutes are taken and hours wasted.
J. Elise Keith • Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization
While a well-run meeting engages everyone, a well-structured meeting constrains dominant individuals.
J. Elise Keith • Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization
Create a Culture in Which It Is Okay to Make Mistakes and Unacceptable Not to Learn from Them This is Work Principle number three in Ray Dalio’s book Principles. It resonates deeply with me and with the people I’ve met who strive to operate at high performance levels.
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“The Flow” is the name given to a skilled individual’s peak productive state. Great work happens when people are in the flow, a state of deep concentration and productive output that, when achieved, temporarily suspends time. Research conducted by positive psychologist Mihaly Csíkszentmihályi and his international team found there are 10 components
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Meetings are used as a collaboration tool to quickly create shared perspective. Meetings function by pulling a group of people together, creating alignment around their work, and pushing them out along a coordinated path toward a goal. Meetings must be held frequently enough to maintain this shared perspective and create momentum along the path.
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