{"id":192,"date":"2008-01-03T17:20:49","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T22:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=192"},"modified":"2008-01-03T17:20:49","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T22:20:49","slug":"death-by-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"Death by Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Death<\/a><\/p>\n

Well…I can’t believe it, but after reading “The Three Signs of a Miserable Job”, I read “Death by Meeting” before I went to bed last night.\u00a0 Two books in one evening!\u00a0 These are really quick reads and I have tons of ideas floating around in my brain after reading them.\u00a0 I have heard that Pat Lencioni is a Christian, but I don’t know that for sure.\u00a0 I do know that there are several places in his books that would lead me to believe he is one and he does always thanks Christ most heartily in his acknowledgements.\u00a0 However, I am a voracious reader and typically alternate between Christian growth books and leadership\/management books.\u00a0 I say all that to say that I am not a worshipper of Lencioni, but find his methods to be worth exploring.<\/p>\n

Who loves meetings?\u00a0 Who would rather have a root canal?\u00a0 I am in so many meetings at school that some of the kids I am close to call me “Meeting Megan”.\u00a0 It seems that I am always coming from or going to a meeting about something.\u00a0 Most meetings tend to be a waste of time.\u00a0 However, every once in a while you will go to a meeting that just really gets your blood pumping.\u00a0 I love those!\u00a0 Those are the ones that everyone leaves a little fired up.\u00a0 It might be because they are angry or it might be because they have finally hashed something out to the point where we can move forward with pursuing a new opportunity.<\/p>\n

Lencioni talks a lot about the need for healthy conflict in a meeting.\u00a0 He also has some great ideas on how to structure meetings in order to get more accomplished.\u00a0 I am going to post below the main ideas of how Lencioni suggests setting up meanings to get the most out of your team and out of your time together.<\/p>\n

The Daily Check-In <\/strong>\u2013 Requires that team members get together, standing-up, for about five minutes every morning to report on their activities for that day. Five minutes. Standing up. That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n

The Weekly Tactical <\/strong>\u2013 This should last between 45 and 90 minutes with the following critical elements:<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Lightning Round: A quick, around-the-table reporting session in which everyone indicates their two or three priorities for the week. This should take no more than 60 seconds per team member.
\n\u2022 The Progress Review: Routine reporting on critical information or metrics: revenue, expenses, customer satisfaction, inventory, etc. This should take only five minutes.
\n\u2022 Real-Time Agenda: The agenda should only be set after the lightning round and progress review are complete. This way the agenda will be based on what people are actually working on and how the company is performing against its goals, not based on the leader\u2019s best guess beforehand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Monthly Strategic <\/strong>\u2013 This is the most interesting and, in many ways, the most important type of meeting any team has. It is also the most fun. Here, executives wrestle with, analyze, debate and decide upon critical issues (but only a few) that will affect the business in fundamental ways. Monthly strategic meetings allow executives to dive into a given topic or two without the distraction of deadlines and tactical concerns.<\/p>\n

The Quarterly Off-site Review <\/strong>\u2013 These provide executives an opportunity to regularly step away from the daily, weekly, even monthly issues that occupy their attention, and review the business in a more holistic, long-term manner. Topics for reflection and discussion at a productive Quarterly Off-site Review might include the following:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Comprehensive Strategy Review: Executives should reassess the strategic direction of the organization, three or four times a year.
\n\u2022 Team Review: Executives should regularly assess themselves and their behaviors as a team, identifying trends or tendencies that may not be serving the organization.
\n\u2022 Personnel Review: Three or four times a year, executives should talk, across departments, about the key employees within the organization. Every member of an executive team should know whom their peers view as their stars, as well as their poor performers.
\n\u2022 Competitive\/Industry Review: Information about competitors and industry trends bleeds into an organization little by little over time. It is useful for executives to step back and look at what is happening around them in a more comprehensive way so they can spot trends.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you’d like, we could set up a meeting at Starbuck’s to talk further about it!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well…I can’t believe it, but after reading “The Three Signs of a Miserable Job”, I read “Death by Meeting” before I went to bed last night.\u00a0 Two books in one evening!\u00a0 These are really quick reads and I have tons of ideas floating around in my brain after reading them.\u00a0 I have heard that Pat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}