The idea is not to get bogged down in them, but let's all just look at the latest numbers and make sure we have those in our brains. It's also people have such a strong mental model for what a metrix review meeting is that it's very difficult to break in the first meeting. Yeso often i'll just skip it. We'll come back to it in a couple of weeks once we have really figured out our projects.
[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/