114 - What's the problem with meetings? with Nina Sunday

Manage Self, Lead Others: Emotional Intelligence and Leadership for Managers

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.

In summary, the most common gripes are:

• no agenda sent ahead of time

• agenda unclear or lacks the objective

• absence of agenda

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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