It is not uncommon to encounter leaders who openly question why they devote so much of their precious time—often five, six, or even seven hours a day—to activities that seem to produce no results.
So how can leaders make faster and better decisions in the meetings they lead or attend?
Determine if you should actually have this meeting.
Eliminating unnecessary meetings is probably the biggest productivity boost a manager can get.
A good idea is to take a closer look at the most common encounters.
These events may have a useful agenda, but then degenerate into fruitless debates.
If you're a manager who automatically agrees to attend meetings, it might be time to end it.
A leader's job must be to treat his time with the same care that a company treats its balance sheet.
Even if you think the meeting is necessary, ask your colleagues and subordinates if they think these meetings are necessary.
Listen carefully to their pros and cons. And also think about whether you can solve this or that issue on your own. In this case, it is not at all necessary that you cannot rely on the advice of others, but if you make a decision on your own, it will simply be faster.
Set a specific topic for the meeting
Of course, as a rule, the topics of meetings revolve around a pre-established agenda.
However, often these questions are too general and endless debates about nothing begin at the meeting.
Therefore, try to clearly formulate in advance the issues that you will discuss at the meeting and stick to the given agenda during the meeting.
It is also important to remember some features of meetings. One of them is that meetings should have a small number of people - usually six to eight participants - to make decisions effectively.
It is important that all participants prepare for the meeting in advance and know their topic.
And also, it is not enough to just make a decision. You need to immediately assign a mechanism for implementation. Determine who exactly will be responsible for this or that issue, who will be in what subordination, set deadlines for each task, determine the mechanism for completing all tasks.
Identify the role of each meeting participant
If you are not sure whether a person is needed at the meeting or not, it is better to leave him outside the meeting room. You should clearly understand what you want from each of those present.
Always remember that there are people who are really useful at meetings, but who do their best not to participate in them. And then there are those who are obviously not useful, but who constantly try to squeeze into these meetings. And then these people get into useless debates, trying to show how hard they work.
Correctly determine the benefit of each person and decide who should be at the meeting and who should not be invited.
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Author: Vitaly Kisterny
