Why meetings matter

It’s astonishing how many people take meetings for granted when it’s so obvious that meetings are incredibly important.

Meetings are where future paths are decided.

Meetings are where the decisions that affect organisations are made.

Meetings are where all the options are looked at and weighed.

Meetings determine the course of your organisation’s progress.

And your progress too.

We also know that not all meetings are particularly successful meetings. Many meetings can yield very little in the way of great results.

But this isn’t our concern today. What matters today is how your meetings can become more productive and more successful – and fast.

Today is about building your success through more successful meetings.

This is why meetings matter.

So let’s start at the beginning and examine meetings from the ground up.

Exercise 2:

Let’s look at what lies immediately ahead:

How many of the next 30 days worth of meetings present opportunities for you to improve them?

• Most

• Some

• Few

Write this out as in, say:

Most of the next 30 days meetings could be improved.

Which specific ones could be improved? Write them down, as in:

The project meetings could definitely be improved.

Write down briefly, in less than 24 words each if possible, how each meeting could be improved, for example.

No one seems bothered how well we do. I feel I’m running uphill all the time.

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