A Guide to Leading Awesome Meetings

It’s cool to hate and bash on meetings right now. That’s stupid.

But I also get it.

I remember in one season of my work life 80% of my week was committed to meetings before the week began.

Being in too many meetings, especially ineffective meetings will burn you out. Can I please get an amen!?!?!?

But we fail to understand burnout. I’ll hand the mic to THE adult development specialist Robert Kegan:

“research shows that the single biggest cause of work burnout is not work overload,
but working too long without experiencing your own personal development.”

Let’s break it down. (BTW the above quote applies to the entirety of your job, not just meetings.)

It’s not that all meetings are bad. Too many lame meetings are bad.

Great meetings grow you. Even 1%. You see great leaders lead. Or you get new experiences. You fall down and you get back up. You learn. You build skills. It’s personal. And it’s development.

Done poorly, meetings inoculate you away from action and into discussion.

And NO COMMITTEE has or ever will change the world.

There must be people in the meeting with a fire in their belly. Think Vision not soured lunch leftovers.

But no Vision of substance happens without a team.

You need vision. You need a team.

Done right:

• Meetings amplify momentum.
• Meetings reveal opportunities to clarify and deepen the vision/values/strategy.
• Meetings build relationships.

Done poorly:

• Meetings steal momentum.
• Meetings sabotage vision/values/strategy.
• Meetings sour relationships.

It’s your job as a leader to make a meeting so effective and essential that people don’t want to miss it.

So you probably need to cancel a bunch of them. And upgrade your skills.

And as a team member it’s your job to speak up if you are leaving stuck, confused, or hurt.

Here’s a guide to leading great meetings.

There’s way more in the academy course Figure That Work Out. There are 4 trainings alone on meetings and those are nested under 1 of 9 skills. Upgrade yourself. Own the course for life.

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