Status Updates From Death by Meeting: A Leaders...

Daily check in: 5min, not practical for every organization, everyone reports on activities for that day - provides quick forum to ensure nothing falls through the cracks on a given day and that no one steps on anyone else’s toes + eliminates need for email chains about schedule coordination

Resolving issues that matter is what makes a meeting productive, engaging, even fun. Avoiding the issues that merit debate and disagreement not only makes the meeting boring, it guarantees that the issues won’t be resolved -> recipe for frustration -> manifests itself later in unproductive personal conflict or politics

Idea of a “parking lot” for issues that are “too big and hairy” in a weekly tactical meeting to a list for the next monthly strategic meeting

Trying to deal with strategic issues during the weekly (tactical) meeting usually means you get distracted and don’t deal with any of the short-term issues that you really need to resolve if you’re going to keep the business moving

[instead of consensus] you have a passionate, unfiltered, messy, provocative discussion that ends when the leader of the team decides all information has been aired. At that point if no one has made a compelling enough argument for making a decision, the leader breaks the Tur

Everyone, but especially you as the leader of the group, needs to be looking for places where people have different opinions but aren’t necessarily putting them out there. And when you see that, you need to force them to communicate what they’re thinking until they’ve said all there is to be said.

Conflict is nothing more than an anxious situation that needs to be resolved.

automagically synced from shelvd.io ✨