A meeting is an event where minutes are taken and hours wasted.

Meetings are used as a collaboration tool to quickly create shared perspective. Meetings function by pulling a group of people together, creating alignment around their work, and pushing them out along a coordinated path toward a goal. Meetings must be held frequently enough to maintain this shared perspective and create momentum along the path. Me

PMQ looks at the quality of an individual meeting. Learning to run a meeting well is a worthy accomplishment! Leading one good meeting matters, but as we all know, most meetings are not solitary beasts. Only bad meetings stand alone; failed sales calls and botched negotiations are not joined by a second meeting. The rest of our meetings travel in p

Weekly team meetings often fail because people run them like project status updates instead of team meetings, focusing too heavily on content at the expense of connection, and their teams are weaker for it.

If people know the organization’s current goals, understand the longer-term vision they’re being asked to help build, and appreciate the current conditions affecting their work, they have a clear understanding of what they need to achieve.

While a well-run meeting engages everyone, a well-structured meeting constrains dominant individuals.

There are two major outcomes for any meeting: a human connection and a work product

This is another reason why I recommend teams work to banish the word “meeting” from their calendars. It’s a critical-thinking exercise. When you are forced to use a more specific name than “meeting,” you automatically think through what else you might call this thing. Then, with the Taxonomy as a handy cheat sheet, you can get to the clarity requir

Using an agenda and sharing notes after a meeting are the equivalent of table manners. They provide just enough meeting etiquette to avoid embarrassment but not enough to bring mastery. You need to learn this stuff, just like you need to learn how to say “please” and “thank you.” But just because you know which fork to use for the salad, it doesn’t