If an action meeting takes more than an hour, you're probably doing it wrong. Never do a closing round if it'll make you end overtime. Building the agenda should only take a minute or two. The other move i've tried on the levity front is w we're using the around meeting tool in probably half my meetings now. It's little circular zoom windows that have the ability to search for for an animated gift and and show it.
[Rebroadcast note: This episode originally aired in July 2021.]
If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a thousand times: Meetings are the worst. Instead of being a meaningful work tool to help teams strategize efficiently, meetings more often block things—anything—from actually getting done. At The Ready, we’ve got a different method: action meetings.
In this episode of Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans are joined by longtime member Sam Spurlin, who dispenses a step-by-step guide to implementing and scaling effective action meetings, breaks down the best ways to “get people what they need,” and reveals how to keep the action-meeting train chugging along into the future.
You can find Sam here: https://www.samspurlin.com/