You've planned ahead and plotted out your agenda items for your meeting, prepared decision makers and have a defined purpose for the meeting. In spite of all of this, things will still come up that aren't on topic, take too much time to address or simply aren't a good fit for the meeting itself.
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We've all been there. A meeting is running short of time, you have a presenter queued up waiting for their turn and there's a quick decision to be made. There's a bit of discussion and the agenda moves on. Later when you're reconstructing what happened for the minutes, you know a decision was indeed...
If you recall, in the previous post I covered what is an action required. And in this post, we're going to go over how to track them in the context of a meeting.
In most cases, actions required, or ARs for short, should be formally captured and not left up to chance to be completed. During the c...
The term Action Required, or AR for short, was originally coined by Andy Grove of Intel. It's synonymous with what others might call an Action Item or even just a task or to-do. Their use often originates from meetings, but can also be used in less formal settings such as hallway conversations. Bu...
This is the blog post that almost never was. It's been bubbling around in my mind for what seems like near half a year now. But to explain it further, I should probably give you some backstory.
I've always been enamored by developers that show their humanity and what makes them tick. I appreciate...
If you've ever wondered if you should attend a meeting or not, then this week's free resource is for you. Use the Should You Attend a Meeting to quickly determine what indicators and thresholds you should check before accepting a meeting invite. This is a great reference item to refresh your mem...
This week I'm going to mix things up a bit. In lieu of a standard written blog post about meetings, I wanted to provide something in a different format. Not everyone easily digests information via prose, so moving ahead I'm going to begin intermittently providing effective meeting content in a more...
Another key aspect of having an effective meeting is capturing the attendance to the meeting. Many folks upon the mention of this cringe a little due to the implications and potential frictions involved. But the value of having an attendance list far outweighs any potential negatives.
Foremost, ha...
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In many meetings there will be decisions that will need to be made. Sometimes these decisions are informal and can be decided by anyone. Other times though, the process is more formal and you need to get a decision from someone with the proper level of authority. In this post we'll discuss how to ha...