{"id":936,"date":"2017-05-14T13:55:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T13:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theholbrowgroup.com\/?p=936"},"modified":"2019-01-10T15:49:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T15:49:32","slug":"stop-it-with-the-meetings-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theholbrowgroup.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/14\/stop-it-with-the-meetings-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop it with the meetings, already!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The subject of the never-ending series of unproductive time and resulting costs consumed through meetings is one we can all relate to. The vast majority of people I have had the honour of coaching bring tales of negative productivity and frustration (even anger) into coaching conversations as a result of meetings followed by meetings followed by even more meetings. And that\u2019s just Monday\u2019s calendar!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The topic of this monthly newsletter introduces an HBR guide on transforming meetings into vital and meaningful tools to share timely information and create shared accountability and action. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8230;\u201cMeetings are helpful and critically important \u2026 if they are carefully managed and orchestrated.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are some questions intended to serve you as you consider antidotes to effectively deal with meeting fatigue.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What\n would happen if leaders like you did not attend a meeting unless there \nis an advance agenda with a clear purpose and tangible outcome?<\/li><li>What would happen if this same agenda also started and finished at the advertised time, all the time?<\/li><li>How\n will starting the meeting with the recorded specific actions and names \nof the lead team players assigned to handle tasks help to ensure the \nproject moves ahead?<\/li><li>How will creating a culture of accountability help to achieve the expected results? and,<\/li><li>What milestones are to be created to celebrate cooperation and synergy?<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\nMeetings are helpful and critically important vehicles of communication if they are carefully managed and orchestrated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theholbrowgroup.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/14\/stop-it-with-the-meetings-already\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communicate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholbrowgroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholbrowgroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholbrowgroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholbrowgroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholbrowgroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theholbrowgroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983,"href":"https:\/\/theholbrowgroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholbrowgroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholbrowgroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholbrowgroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholbrowgroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}