From the course: Building High-Performance Teams

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Measuring and adjusting

Measuring and adjusting

- When you're running a high-performing team, one of the most valuable assets you've got is time. And so much of our time gets consumed by worthless activities, the most worthless being meetings that don't have a purpose and aren't efficient. So I'd like to offer some techniques for running your meetings more efficiently, helping you focus on the right key sets of metrics, and then managing by exception. Because you should spend less time in meetings and more time driving results. First, share information ahead of time. Send documents out to people well in advance of the meeting and set a clear expectation that that information will be reviewed before people come into the room. And then hold people to that standard when they come to the meeting. Simply ask, has everybody reviewed the information that was sent out? And if enough people haven't reviewed it, you should adjourn the meeting and reschedule and start setting…

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