In this episode, you’ll discover the super villains that destroy meeting efficiency and learn how to defeat them. We’ll share with you the tools you can use to hold effective meetings and deliver project results.
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During this episode, you will find out how to:
- Recognize the people that derail meetings and keep you from achieving your objectives
- Use tools and techniques to keep meetings on track and provide value
- Change your perspective about these meeting villains
- Change the meeting villains into meeting heroes
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Loved the episode. Great guidance. Actionable.
I can’t say enough about agendas, one of the most underutilized tools. Another is the meeting spam. Who do you really need there? You kind of touched on this, but I recommend giving thought to who you need and only invite them.
One other tool that I started using for meetings too, was to include a meeting objective on the agenda. Why are you meeting and what would make it success. Not all that useful for things like staff meetings but for purposeful meetings, the objective can force you to think about why you’re bringing all these people together.
Great work.
Dave
Hello,
My name is Miguel from Madrid, Spain.
First of all thank you for publishing this kind of podcasts, they are interested for me.
At the moment I am working in an IT company. I have identified all “villians” in the meetings that I have to attend and we try to defeat them using your pieces of advice. However, we have a complex situation which I would want you provide me another technique to defeat it.
In some meetings the facilitator is a dominator as well. How could we manage these kind of meetings in order to avoid a monologue?
I would appreciate your answer. Thank you in advance.
Best regards
Hi Miguel. That’s a great question. Some options to address a facilitator who’s a dominator include suggesting the use of a parking lot, asking questions such as “Can we time box this discussion?”, and suggesting others chime in (“Bob, Do you have any thoughts on this?”). Allowing anyone to use ELMO can also be helpful as well as requesting an agenda and using it to move the conversation along (“It looks like we only have 5 more minutes on this topic. How can we quickly move this forward?”). I hope that helps.