Two years ago, I could go to a meeting on-site with just a notebook and I could make it productive (even if the meeting as a whole wasn’t). That’s not to say all my meetings were value-driven, but for the most part, I’d say 80% were.
Then we went to remote all the time meetings and getting this rolling with the team was painful, to say the least. There were a few missteps, but learning what did and didn’t work and getting everyone to an acceptable cadence let us get back up to that 80% value-driven goal.
Being Aside.
When I like to approach all my meetings with the question — “What value am I giving or receiving from this meeting?” — starting there helps me determine if I will be a help or hindrance to this meeting and whether I should politely decline or become more active within it. I aim for 80% because there are some meetings that are completely out of my control but I get the request to “be there just in case”. My personal hope is that if I’m hitting that 80%, then perhaps the things we are doing as a team in those meetings start to spread to the other 20%.
End Aside.
And now, here we are, with Hybrid meetings and those ones are definitely throwing us for a loop as we all struggle to get on the same page as to what is being discussed not only that, ensure that we have the…
