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Episode Synopsis
What irritates you about meetings? Do you find meetings time-consuming and inefficient?
What comes up in our Leading Effective Meetings workshops as a point of frustration is agenda, either no agenda or unclear agenda or one not stating the purpose of the meeting.
Poor meeting management comes up frequently as a bugbear.
Meeting participants want to know whether there's prep or pre-reading for them to do, the duration of different agenda items, whether they are going to be asked to speak, and so on. It makes sense to add a time duration against each agenda item.
Most common gripes are:
• absence of agenda
• agenda not sent before the meeting
• agenda unclear or lacks the objective
What are some common agreements teams decide to adopt?
Agenda structure - is there a best practice?
What’s the biggest no-no about meeting behaviour?
What are some roles to have in a meeting?
How can the team leader minimise conflict?
How can you build capability of aspiring managers?
What causes online meeting fatigue?
What does author of ''Principles: Life and Work'', Ray Dalio, say about meetings?
What is the RACI framework from Project Management?
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Edited by Nick Jones
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What comes up in our Leading Effective Meetings workshops as a point of frustration is agenda, either no agenda or unclear agenda or one not stating the purpose of the meeting.
Poor meeting management comes up frequently as a bugbear.
Meeting participants want to know whether there's prep or pre-reading for them to do, the duration of different agenda items, whether they are going to be asked to speak, and so on. It makes sense to add a time duration against each agenda item.
Most common gripes are:
• absence of agenda
• agenda not sent before the meeting
• agenda unclear or lacks the objective
What are some common agreements teams decide to adopt?
Agenda structure - is there a best practice?
What’s the biggest no-no about meeting behaviour?
What are some roles to have in a meeting?
How can the team leader minimise conflict?
How can you build capability of aspiring managers?
What causes online meeting fatigue?
What does author of ''Principles: Life and Work'', Ray Dalio, say about meetings?
What is the RACI framework from Project Management?
Listen to all audio episodes of Manage Self, Lead Others on your favourite app HERE: https://link.chtbl.com/-MXiwEWK
View all video episodes of Manage Self, Lead Others on Youtube HERE:
https://www.youtube.com/@manageselfleadotherspodcast?sub_confirmation=1
Edited by Nick Jones
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