Elise Keith, co-founder of Lucid Meetings, discusses the negative cycle of bad meetings and the importance of reframing their purpose. She identifies 16 types of meetings and highlights the significance of separating them by their work purpose. Keith also explains that the frequency of meetings affects their productivity, with more frequent meetings being shorter and more productive. Lastly, she emphasizes the need to define the purpose and desired outcome of meetings.
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The Bad Meetings Doom Loop
A negative belief about meetings creates a self-fulfilling doom loop of poor preparation and poor outcomes.
Changing the initial belief to "meetings are where work gets done" creates a positive loop and better results.
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Rename Meetings By Purpose
Rename and specify meetings to change emotional reactions and invite mastery.
Call gatherings by purpose (e.g., sales demo, family reunion) so people prepare and apply appropriate skills.
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Split Leadership Work Into Meeting Sequences
Leadership teams often mash strategy, tactics, and decisions into one long meeting that becomes ineffective.
Separating those activities into a sequence of meetings produces clearer outcomes and better decisions.
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Meetings have a bad rap, but they're critical to how work gets done. Today's guest, Elise Keith is the co-Founder of Lucid Meetings, which helps organizations run day-to-day meetings to power their organizational success. Elise and I discuss the 'bad meeting doom loop', different types of meetings and how to string together a series to optimize how the team collaborates, and the most important thing to do when planning a meeting.
Key Takeaways:
Stop the bad meetings doom loop in which we expect meetings to be a waste of time so we don't prepare for them properly which leads them to being unproductive which reinforces our belief that meetings are a waste of time.
Try this mindset instead: Meetings are a place where people come together to get work done.
The word meeting is loaded. Try reframing your meetings by calling them something else like a weekly huddle or team crush.
Keith identifies 16 types of meetings which she discusses in depth in her book.
Separate meetings by their work purpose. Rather than compound meeting types, create a sequence of meetings that work together.
In general, the more frequently you meet, the shorter the meetings can be and they are likely to be more productive. In contrast, the less frequent you meet, the longer the meetings need to be, and the less productive they typically are.
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