{"id":1773,"date":"2008-08-11T07:10:03","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T06:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/progmanager.wordpress.com\/?p=410"},"modified":"2008-08-11T07:10:03","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T06:10:03","slug":"making-meetings-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2008\/08\/11\/making-meetings-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Meetings Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The mechanisms that provide the hard landscape for most organisations social systems are a hotchpotch of poorly designed and badly managed meetings in which behaviour and performance is pretty much left to chance.<span> <\/span>That is why so many people have a work life that is full of inconsequential meetings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">However it is these regularly scheduled meetings that largely determine what is going to be achieved by the organisation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In effective social systems (read high performing organisations) every meeting contributes to one or more of the following<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Creating new products or services that fulfill the organisation\u2019s mission<\/li>\n<li>Remove barriers to personal, professional and organisational growth<\/li>\n<li>Improve judgment and decision making<\/li>\n<li>Tap intellectual ability<\/li>\n<li>Build commitment and support for execution of strategies and plans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">After every meeting rate its success against each of these criteria \u2013 and then ask yourself what you can do to make the meeting more effective next time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">If you are the meeting owner ask each participant to score the meeting against these criteria and again ask for their suggestions on how the meeting can be improved next time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Prepare a poster to go up in each meeting room reminding participants of their obligation to ensure that every meeting contributes towards some or all of these outcomes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Some thoughts on Best City outcomes\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/07\/05\/some-thoughts-on-best-city-outcomes\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Some thoughts on Best City outcomes<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Getting to Grips with Social Finance &#8211; FREE TRAINING\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/06\/12\/getting-to-grips-with-social-finance-free-training\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Getting to Grips with Social Finance &#8211; FREE TRAINING<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Making Progress Through Austerity\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/05\/16\/making-progress-through-austerity\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Making Progress Through Austerity<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Improving Employability&#8230;\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/05\/15\/improving-employability\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Improving Employability&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"How Should We Recognise a Successful Economy?\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/05\/11\/how-should-we-recognise-a-successful-economy\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">How Should We Recognise a Successful Economy?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mechanisms that provide the hard landscape for most organisations social systems are a hotchpotch of poorly designed and badly managed meetings in which behaviour and performance is pretty much left to chance. That is why so many people have a work life that is full of inconsequential meetings. 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