KEY 3: The Agenda
For each meeting, you need to decide who the most critical people are who need to be there.
Without an agenda, you can’t possibly know who should be at the meeting. Consequently, an effective meeting starts with the agenda. Before the meeting decide: what you want to cover, what order you will present each agenda item, and how many minutes you will spend on each one.
Get good at letting people know they don’t always have to attend every meeting. You don’t need your lab technician to be there if you will be discussing the new printers and direct mail pieces with your treatment coordinators and marketing team. It’s OK if some people keep working on their projects and skip a meeting if they are not going to contribute to the outcome.
Every person who comes to the meeting should be participating in every agenda item. If not, they can leave …show more content…
Your role as the leader is to grow people so that their voices are heard and they can contribute their great ideas. It’s not to get your ideas heard. You give them the vision; let them figure out the “how.”
KEY 7: Critical Roles
Of all the employees you have, how many of them have received at least a 30 minutes of training on meetings or have read at least one book on meetings. Cameron Herold asks, “Think about little league baseball for a moment. What parent would ever send their kid off to play little league baseball without at least showing them how to hold the bat, how to put a glove on and how to toss a ball at least a small distance away.”
But we all let our employees go to battle every day without ever giving them training on communication and running or attending productive meetings that get results.
At every meeting, a single person should be appointed as the moderator, and they will be tasked with three critical roles: moderator, timekeeper, and Parking Lot.
The Moderator
For each meeting, you need to decide who the most critical people are who need to be there.
Without an agenda, you can’t possibly know who should be at the meeting. Consequently, an effective meeting starts with the agenda. Before the meeting decide: what you want to cover, what order you will present each agenda item, and how many minutes you will spend on each one.
Get good at letting people know they don’t always have to attend every meeting. You don’t need your lab technician to be there if you will be discussing the new printers and direct mail pieces with your treatment coordinators and marketing team. It’s OK if some people keep working on their projects and skip a meeting if they are not going to contribute to the outcome.
Every person who comes to the meeting should be participating in every agenda item. If not, they can leave …show more content…
Your role as the leader is to grow people so that their voices are heard and they can contribute their great ideas. It’s not to get your ideas heard. You give them the vision; let them figure out the “how.”
KEY 7: Critical Roles
Of all the employees you have, how many of them have received at least a 30 minutes of training on meetings or have read at least one book on meetings. Cameron Herold asks, “Think about little league baseball for a moment. What parent would ever send their kid off to play little league baseball without at least showing them how to hold the bat, how to put a glove on and how to toss a ball at least a small distance away.”
But we all let our employees go to battle every day without ever giving them training on communication and running or attending productive meetings that get results.
At every meeting, a single person should be appointed as the moderator, and they will be tasked with three critical roles: moderator, timekeeper, and Parking Lot.
The Moderator