Top Reasons Why Team Meetings Tank
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Here are some of the top reasons we’ve discovered that team meetings don’t achieve maximum impact. Use this information and the suggested solutions to recharge your team meetings.
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Here are some of the top reasons we’ve discovered that team meetings don’t achieve maximum impact. Use this information and the suggested solutions to recharge your team meetings.
- Disorganization. Sorry, but the biggest key to crummy meetings may lie with you as the leader. Have you set the goal for the meeting, ensured that everyone who needs to be there can be there, and that all the data needed is available?
- Interrupting. If you can’t get things done in meetings, is it because you tolerate team members cutting others off in discussion, and even letting them change the meeting direction altogether?
- Bunny Trail Madness. If your team has a member that never met a tangent she didn’t like, ask the entire group if they want to discuss anything more on the present topic before jumping into the new direction.
- Whining. Set a team commitment to never even refer to a problem in a negative way unless a solution follows in the next sentence. Even a ridiculous solution.
- Hoarding job knowledge. Part of every person’s job description should be a responsibility to share their knowledge in your meetings, even if it means giving up some turf.
- Tardiness. If you have a team member who is consistently late to your meetings, this pulls down the morale of the team. Address it privately, and persistently.
- Too many breaks. If your team is involved in a lengthy project together, long breaks can kill mental momentum. Set specific breaks and specify the minutes.
- No written progress. Meetings can feel useless to the team if no sense of progress is established. As the leader, write everything down or appoint someone who will. Then give everyone a digital and a hard copy after every meeting. You’ll get more "buy in" and more voluntary accountability.
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