01/16/2024

How To Fix Your Meetings

Consider these four methods

Organizations have tried many different strategies to decrease meeting time and to improve meetings. I will outline a small set below that have worked well for some organizations with which I've worked. Not all these practices will make sense for your organization, but some just might.

1. Some organizations require approval from more senior manager for large meetings (e.g., over 10 people). This might sound a bit draconian, but it does result in more careful thought when making the meeting invite list, which is key.

2. Assign a member of the senior leadership team ownership of meetings as a key work process. By doing so, the monitoring, attention, and improvement of meetings becomes part of the organizational fabric. We do this for other extremely expensive work processes and activities. For example, we want our technology investment to be overseen by the chief technology or information officer.

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