Sunday, December 23, 2012

4 Steps To Transform Your Meetings


Do you feel like meetings are a waste of time (don't we all)? Follow these 4 simple steps to keep your employees engaged and increase productivity.

There are so many poorly run meetings that many people hate them. Considering their cost, it’s worth improving them, especially if they are your meetings. An easy way is by getting four things right and visualizing them. This applies to any kind of meeting--regular, special, face-to-face, or virtual. They create the acronym OARRs. The metaphor should help you remember them. Let’s look at each one briefly.

1. Outcomes: If you do nothing else, get these clear at the beginning of meetings. This is where you would express your expectations in a regular meeting and indicate the agreed-upon outcomes of a design team in a special meeting. They should describe what you want to have happen by the end of the meeting. Clarifying outcomes is the most effective action you can take to improve meetings. Writing them down visibly makes a big difference.




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