Nowadays there are more company meetings than necessary.
Zoom meetings, Client meetings, internal sync ups, and weekly catchups fill up our calendars every week. Months go on with many meetings that serve no purpose or get results.
Meetings are not going away soon. However, effective meetings are highly valuable for everyone in attendance.
To make company meetings effective, have an agenda, start and end on time, and have clear next steps.
Shellye Archambeau, chief executive of MetricStream likes to end her meetings by asking, “Who’s got the ball?” When you’re in sports, and the ball is thrown to you, then you’ve got the ball, and you’re now in control of what happens next. You own it. It becomes a very visible concept for making sure that there’s actually ownership to make sure things get done.” – NYT’s article