95% of Your Meetings Suck. Let's Change That. - Uwe Hook

A few years back my niece visited my office and after spending the whole day with me she was asked by her mother quotWhat does Uwe do all dayquotHer answer quotHe39s in meetingsquotThat39s a sad reality for the majority of us Boring Meetings Useless meetings Sloppy meetings If the US army would be as sloppily run as our meetings there wouldn39t be the United States of America If my kid would be as poorly prepared for her school life as most meetings are she39d drop out of school in 7th gradeMeetings are importantThey are the wheel that set things in motionUnfortunately that wheel doesn39t work 95 of the timequotRead this before our next meetingquotIt39s the title of a book by Al Pittampalli published by The Domino Project and the content will change your lifeAl Pittampalli describes the usual MS Office appointments as 39weapons of mass interruption39 and explains that it39s far too easy for people to call team meetings without any real preparation and empathy for the impact another bad meeting might have on all recipientsIn addition he describes the majority of meetings as stalling tactics and havens for complacency or collective indecisionHow to combat 39Death by meetings39 Only invite people to meetings who NEED to be there not people who SHOULD be there Circulate reading materials way ahead of the meeting insisting that everybody actually read the material If not ask them to leave the meeting Should have used their own time get informed meetings are about decisions not information All meetings have to have a clear purpose clear objectives and end on time Meet only to support a decision that has already been made Produce committed action plansSummer is over Time to be productive againDon39t waste another hour with useless meetingsBuy the book to get more indepth insights It took me 30 minutes to read it But it will save me a lot of time and energy in the years to comeOh and please don39t invite me to any meetingsUwe Hook is the CEO and CoFounder of BatesHook Inc wwwbateshookcom and a veteran of the advertising and marketing industry with the goal of building connections between people and brands Uwe can be reached at uwebateshookcomRead all Uwe39s MediaBizBloggers commentaries at SubversionsCheck us out on Facebook at MediaBizBloggerscomFollow our Twitter updates MediaBizBloggerThe opinions and points of view expressed in this commentary are exclusively the views of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaBizBloggerscom management or associated bloggers MediaBizBloggers is an open thought leadership platform and readers may share their comments and opinions in response to all commentaries

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