If you want more engagement, more participation and better meetings, try this ONE tactic to turn your next meeting around.
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Leadership and Talking on a meeting. Excellent mini info audio session.
We should all think about these tips to make meeting more effective.
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You are most welcome!
Kevin – I love your quick tips. They generally come at just the right time for issues I dealing with in my worksite. Thank you!
Timing is everything. Glad this insight could help.
Kevin 🙂
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.
Dan – thanks for a great example, and a great idea.
Kevin 🙂
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.
Thanks so much for sharing your experience Dory.
Kevin 🙂