When i teach a team an action meeting, it's not me lecturing to them. It's us getting in there together and lookin, talking about their work. There's no really just chit chatting about it, yes? And there's no place really to bring, like, a long power point and put on a show. Like if you have information like that and you actually need feedback or input or something, you have to do something about it. This is about action that has happened and that is about to happen.
[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/