Sublime

promoting consensus, thus serving as a focal point for collective drive and energy.

Beliefs around the value and benefits of employee inclusion, of empowerment, of teams, of employee buy-in, and of employee engagement are more prominent than ever as efficient ways to achieve short-term and long-term organizational survival and success. Meetings are a key mechanism to express these values.

Meetings help employees build attachments to others and recognize that they are not alone in silos but instead are part of something bigger than themselves.

there is no other single investment of this magnitude that an organization makes that is treated in such a cavalier manner; where so few resources are allocated to assessing, evaluating, and working to improve meetings, both locally and enterprise-wide.

Another opportunity for leader development and accountability is to conduct 360-degree feedback surveys that contain some content on meetings.

They think carefully about the design and execution of the meeting, from soup to nuts—they never just “phone it in.

Typically, organizations outsource 360-degree survey efforts to consulting companies. I have yet to find one consulting company that includes any content around meetings in its assessment.