The Structure of your meeting: how well is it working for you?

Every meeting has a structure, whether implicit or explicit. Most regular meetings follow a structure using a formal  Agenda to arrange the topics and the understood hierarchy to do everything else.

Which means that we can get in a rut, following established patterns of behaviour with our colleagues and bosses. So producing new ideas, enthusiasm and commitment can be challenging.  And is it the best use of your time and resources?

Who gets to speak?

On average 30% of the people in a meeting take up most of the discussion time. Which means that most meetings fail to capitalise on the ideas and thoughts of up to 70% of the attendees, time the employer is paying for.  Is that you?

How do we get the best out of everyone?

By recognising that meetings can be different, with more energy and focus, and by taking steps to make that happen

By acknowledging that when a group of people meet to discuss ideas and make decisions it's important to get a contribution from everyone round the table

By understanding that by paying attention to everyone in turn we get the best ideas in the shortest time: we get shorter, smarter meetings

THE IDEAL MEETING FORMAT = BEST RESULTS

This is disciplined, even rigorous: introducing these key principles to your meetings will make them more generative, more interesting and more cost-effective than they have ever been.  Running meetings in this way will produce 

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