From the course: How to Stop Wasting Time in Meetings
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Starting with a positive focus
From the course: How to Stop Wasting Time in Meetings
Starting with a positive focus
- Meetings have gotten a really bad rep over the years. They're boring. They're unnecessary. They're a waste of time. They could have been an email. I've heard it all, but here are three astonishingly simple and astonishingly powerful ways to change the tone of your meetings forever. Begin exactly on time and don't tell me that your people won't show up on time. If you train people that you always start right on time, they will be there right on time. After all, people are dealing with enough chaos in their lives. It's nice to know that something can be counted on, even if that something is just the fact that your meetings start exactly on time. So right on time, call people's attention to begin. Next, see if you can start a policy of having everyone's cellphone be off before they enter the conference room. When people's phones are off, they make eye contact with other people. They connect. There's some chit-chat, some…
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