Jan

18

Meetings That Go Pow

Filed Under Brad Works 

I spent the whole day hopping from meeting to meeting to phone appointments and back to meetings. I observed three things today about meetings:

1. When scheduling meetings, I always try and cluster them. The tendency is to want to space them out to allow for re-grouping time. When I cluster meetings it keeps my mind flowing and rolling. It also allows for my non-meeting time to also be clustered, resulting in larger periods of productive time. I’d much rather have 90 minutes of non-meeting time than six breaks of 15 minutes each.

2. When you’re in a debriefing meeting, processing something that has already happened, it is important to be thinking about how this information applies to what is next. This is especially difficult when you’re debriefing something that you are not going to repeat. This was the case today — I kept asking “how and where can I apply this lesson?”

3. I love it when you’re in a meeting and an idea is shared that everybody gives a “wow” to. It’s that moment when you realize that one statement/idea was worth the whole meeting. It’s important to look for those moments, and the sooner they happen the better. The energy that zaps everybody else is contagious and often spurs on the rest of the participants.

By the way, I really dislike meetings.

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