How effective are your business meetings (honestly)?

I worked for one organisation many years ago where the senior team (I was a senior manager) spent two hours every Monday morning in our senior meeting. I used to have to stick my finger nails into my palms to stay awake. They were SO boring.

I work with business teams and show them my 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 strategy for meetings - first third to talk about last week, second third to talk about the comikng week - these 2/3rds are the operational stuff that needs to be dealt with but needs to be dealt with quickly. Because it is the final 1/3 where amazing things can happen - it is what we used to call general business, which normally receives about 10 seconds and loses the opportunity to talk about growth, or problem solving or even just some blue skies thinking.

So take this test to find out how effective YOUR meetings are - and if there is a better way to use the amazing brain power around that table - ann

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Posted by Ann Andrews CSP, filed under Tool-box News and posted on 01/09/2010

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