Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization
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
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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
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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
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“The Flow” is the name given to a skilled individual’s peak productive state. Great work happens when people are in the flow, a state of deep concentration and productive output that, when achieved, temporarily suspends time. Research conducted by positive psychologist Mihaly Csíkszentmihályi and his international team found there are 10 components
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“The aim of the net-positive movement is to encourage businesses to leave the world a better place than they find it.” —Oliver Bach for the Guardian
J. Elise Keith • Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization
While a well-run meeting engages everyone, a well-structured meeting constrains dominant individuals.
J. Elise Keith • Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization
Create a Culture in Which It Is Okay to Make Mistakes and Unacceptable Not to Learn from Them This is Work Principle number three in Ray Dalio’s book Principles. It resonates deeply with me and with the people I’ve met who strive to operate at high performance levels.
J. Elise Keith • Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization
A meeting is an event where minutes are taken and hours wasted.
J. Elise Keith • Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization
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.