In order to produce an effective meeting, there are various roles and responsibilities that should be shared with the attendees. As meeting roles are often very specialized in nature and take brain cycles, attendees should only have a single, not multiple roles, within a meeting. Of course there are...
For many folks, if they're invited to a meeting, their default response is to accept and attend. But for truly effective meetings, both facilitators and attendees should reframe this response to include not attending as an acceptable response.
If you're invited to a meeting, within the invitation...
One of the first questions to be answered, whether you're creating a meeting or invited to attend, is why the meeting is being held. There should be some very tangible reasons to have a meeting and consume people's time. If there aren't, then maybe the meeting is unnecessary and shouldn't happen.
I...
When someone brings up the idea of meetings, one of the first responses is a sigh. We've all been in poorly run meetings, where they're nearly a waste of time and energy sink. Not only are the quality of meetings often bad, but the frequency is nearly too much to handle.
I'm the first one to call...