" meta cognition is really important and really uncomfortable for people who have not done it very much," she says. "It also breaks all our thoughts about planning and predicting, because we don't care about what last week's items were." In a system where you don't have a lot of those traditional structures to take care of you, this step can be easy to slip into, he adds.
[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/