Are your meetings profitable?

Most meetings leave a lot of room for improvement.

Let’s take an honest look at how yours measure up:

Cost:

Average “hourly salary” x people in attendance x hours spent in the meeting = your answer.

Calculating the monetary value of your meetings can be eye opening…especially when you consider their accumulated annual cost.

Imagine that number showing up as a line item on your budget. Is the investment worthy of the outcome produced?

Character:

What’s the energy of your meetings? Do people leave feeling…

If your answers tend to swing toward the latter, the question is:

Does inspiring those feelings in your team help or hinder the ultimate results you’re after?

Content:

Meetings can be unruly and unorganized. Here are a few disciplines that are rare and effective:

Provide clear expectations by sending out an agenda 24 hours in advance
Set brains to positive by kicking the meeting off with what’s going right
Utilize constructive coaching instead of deconstructive criticism
Engage in solution-centered dialogue
Drive meaningful action by recapping clear and compelling next steps

Make meetings better.

You, your team, and your company deserve it.