The more you can get real about where the effort is and what's moving forward, the more interesting this kind of meeting becomes. This opens up so many opportunities for other non action-related conversations to happen. Not every project that the team is doing has to be covered here,. Each individual decides what needs to rise to the level of everyone's attention. And if it's something i'm doing tht's just very bespoke to my role and my corner of the organization. It really doesn't matter to everyone else. I do not need to waste their 15 seconds.
[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/