A big part of most weekly status meetings is the theatre of what i'm about to do. If nothing has happened, it's no change for everyone right out of the gate. And you just have to really remind the team, we're not here to perform. It feels like shit to show up to your meeting and belin hatem, i didn't do anything on my project this week. I find that one step in the process that teams have a ton of trouble with.
[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/