Few organizations stop considering their meetings’ nature, structure, and value. While collaboration and interaction among teams and other organizations are essential to achieve better outcomes, far too many organizations are over-reliant on meetings and poor ones. For example, consider a meeting with fifty people in attendance: How many contribute are engaged and want to be there?
A meeting with countless individuals will have cost the organization in wages for the time of all who attended, in addition to lost productivity. So why not share the information with most and invite feedback and input?
Here is the problem. Meetings without agendas, a lack of defined purpose for all invitees, little discussion and debate, and even less resulting action are a waste of valuable resources.
Organizations are constantly seeking efficiency and effectiveness in their practices. If we cut four hours of everyone’s meeting time a week, you will likely not only save no less than ten percent on your salary expense and increase productivity, but you would also increase morale and performance.
Meetings can be valuable, but they never will be if we do not plan for them intentionally. So stop inviting people to meetings because you did not plan and if you are interested in making your meetings valuable, create a structure, protocols, and practices. And yes, evaluate them too.
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