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Meeting Productivity
| From: | user 8091024 |
| Sent on: | Thursday, March 26, 2009 4:56 AM |
Greetings!
Here’s an article from Seth Godin on taking control of
your time by making your meetings more effective. Enjoy!
Getting serious about your meeting problem
Do you have one? Some folks are going to eight
hours of meeting a day. At Ford, they used to have meetings to prepare for
meetings, just to be sure everyone had their story straight.
If you're serious about solving your meeting
problem, getting things done and saving time, try this for one week. If it
doesn't work, I'll be happy to give you a full refund.
1.
Understand that all problems are not the same. So why are your
meetings? Does every issue deserve an hour? Why is there a default length?
2.
Schedule meetings in increments of five minutes. Require that
the meeting organizer have a truly great reason to need more than four
increments of real time face time.
3.
Require preparation. Give people things to read or do before the
meeting, and if they don't, kick them out.
4.
Remove all the chairs from the conference room. I'm serious.
5.
If someone is more than two minutes later than the last person
to the meeting, they have to pay a fine of $10 to the coffee fund.
6.
Bring an egg timer to the meeting. When it goes off, you're
done. Not your fault, it's the timer's.
7.
The organizer of the meeting is required to send a short email
summary, with action items, to every attendee within ten minutes of the end of
the meeting.
8.
Create a public space (either a big piece of poster board or a
simple online page) that allows attendees to rate meetings and their organizers
on a scale of 1 to 5 in terms of usefulness. Just a simple box where everyone
can write a number. Watch what happens.
9.
If you're not adding value to a meeting, leave. You can always
read the summary later.
This is all marketing. It's a show, one that lets
your team know you're treating meetings differently now.
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/03/getting-serious-about-your-meeting-problem.html
You can subscribe to Seth’s blog by clicking on the link
above. Great stuff to stimulate ideas for your business.
Hope to see you on April 2 … and that Tom doesn’t
take away all of the chairs!
Bill
Bill Merrow
[masked]
Profit Planners LLC
