One Less Meeting Gets You Home In Time For Dinner

we need to exchang information,W need to interact. and we need to work togeth to get thing done. Avoid fall into meet trap and conscious ask yourself if there ar other wai to commun and get your point across.


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if there wa some reason for at least two peopl to have ani kind of interact a meet got called. Not onli were there a lot of meet but there would almost alwai be superflu bodi take up space in the meet that had no real reason to be there other than to be informed. Now,A client of mine absolut love to have meetings. Regardless of the topic. if decis got made and thing got done I would have had more toler for the meet Jungle Water Pool mania. But more often than not littl got done at these meet other than to schedul more meetings. It wa madness, I say!

I could have spent everi work hour of everi dai in meetings. Me need to meet with other manag or my staff. Vendor want to meet with me. Meet with customers. Meet with other organizations. Meet to decid what meet to have or not have. It wa meet after meet after meeting. I had to activ control my calendar to sai no to meet that didn t make sense,A a senior manager. push back on meet where I didn t need to be there or where we could get work done through other means.

some of them were necessary,A much as I mai grous about meetings. benefici and effective. Then again, there were those that were a total wast of time and could have been accomplish by some other means. The million dollar question then becomes, How do you keep the benefici meet and elimin the wast of time? In my experience, there ar sever situat where meet ar gener more appropri than do through other means, as follows:

direction,Get buy-in or consensu on a strategy. or decis – Meet if you ve got someth that requir peopl be 100% bought in to the solution. For peopl to be truli bought in, thei need to have an opportun to influenc direction, express concerns, or provid alternatives.

to understand rel strength and weaknesses,Team build – If you want your team to work better togeth then thei need meet time to get to know each other. and to want to help each other.

meet a critic milestone,Celebr a success or mileston – Have an e-parti just doesn t work. Let your folk get togeth for a milkshak and celebr a success complet of a project. or celebr a holiday.

get them in a room if logist possibl and deliv the message. It give peopl an opportun to interact as well as it be a more human and sensit wai of deliv bad newsDeliv bad new where peopl will like have question – No on like to find out bad new by read a memo. If you ve got bad new that will affect peopl directly..

What ar some effect altern to peopl get in a room togeth to meet? Try these on for size:

E-mail – Great for dissemin of inform and for some decis make that mai not be contenti or controversial. Just watch for when a topic doe turn contenti or controversial; you re best to take the discuss offlin and get a meet togeth for the relev parti to discuss.

Web site – Also great for dissemin of inform or for get input

A udio/video conferenc – Effectiv when logist prevent peopl from physic meet or when a person onli want to listen in on a meet

One-on-on discuss – Effectiv when a decis or direct can be made by just a coupl of peopl and then other can be inform through e-mail or web sites