Remarkable TV: How Much Should a Leader Talk at Meetings?

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Kevin Eikenberry

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If you want more engagement, more participation and better meetings, try this ONE tactic to turn your next meeting around.

Tweet it out: If you want others to participate more in your meetings, you are likely talking too much. via @KevinEikenberry

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About Kevin Eikenberry

Kevin Eikenberry is a recognized world expert on leadership development and learning and is the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group. He has spent over 30 years helping organizations across North America, and leaders from around the world, on leadership, learning, teams and teamwork, communication and more.

Twice he has been named by Inc.com as one of the Top 100 Leadership and Management Experts in the World and 100 Great Leadership Speakers for Your Next Conference. The American Management Association named him a “Leaders to Watch” and he has been twice named as one of the World's Top 30 Leadership Professionals by Global Gurus. Top Sales World has named him a Top Sales & Marketing Influencer several times, and his blog has been named on many “best of” lists. LeadersHum has named him one of the 200 Biggest Voices in Leadership in 2023.

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  1. Leadership and Talking on a meeting. Excellent mini info audio session.
    We should all think about these tips to make meeting more effective.

    Thanks

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  2. Kevin – I love your quick tips. They generally come at just the right time for issues I dealing with in my worksite. Thank you!

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  3. What great insight. A hand few of my prior and current managers ever prepared to promote a positive feedback experience. My favorite “All Star” manager would pull us together for 10-15 minutes to explain the purpose of the meeting(s) and then create time and space for the team to discuss, speculate and capture our thoughts. That time and space was not always in a meeting room. In many instances, it involved team building & bonding exercises. The more comfortable we were with one another, the more willing we were to participate in developing a plan to fulfill a need or prevent a breakdown.

    I asked that “All Star” manager why he always asked the team to pair up in 2’s and 3’s and go for a walk, have lunch together, sit by the pool, etc. He replied “Because I cannot do all the talking if the team is somewhere else”. What an AH HA moment.

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  4. I absolutely agree! I learned this by trial and error. I ask for topics from participants during the week before a meeting and publish an agenda to all participants the day before the meeting. Each topic has a discussion leader (usually, but not always, the participant who suggested it). I rarely am a discussion leader and frequently am delighted by the level of engagement and creative solutions offered by participants. This holds true whether I am coordinating a meeting of external experts or an internal department meeting. My contribution primarily is orchestration; during the meeting I am more conductor than performer.

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