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Keep meetings action-focused

Keep meetings action-focused

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Keep meetings action-focused

- Since so much of your time as a manager is spent in meetings, making sure meetings are effective is essential to your productivity, right? Yet, few of us think of meetings as productive. Why is that? I've found in my coaching that most managerial meetings fail to be productive because they fail to end with clear action. In other words, we talked about what to do. We had some valuable discussions, maybe even a person or two vaguely agreed we should do something about it. Yet in the end, we lacked anything specific for us to follow up on. Or, perhaps even worse in my opinion, people did commit to an action, but no one followed up on it. It was just forgotten. As a manager, you want to make sure your meetings are always productive and always focused on specific, meaningful action. Action, then, becomes the most important part of the meeting. Here are some tips to make that happen. First, reserve time at the beginning of each meeting for reporting. Review the notes from the last…

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