From the course: Collaborative Design: Managing a Team
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Why most meetings are a drag
From the course: Collaborative Design: Managing a Team
Why most meetings are a drag
- When I say the word meeting your eyes probably don't light up. It's not a word that provokes excitement in many people, because we've all sat through seemingly endless, badly run meetings. When it comes to doing collaboration well though, nothing beats a face-to-face meeting for getting ideas on the table quickly and making collective decisions. So what's the difference between a meeting that drags and a meeting that works? Well, there are several places where meetings can get tripped up, and if you can avoid these mistakes, you'll be well on your way to running effective and efficient meetings. So first, don't hold a meeting if all you need to do is communicate information. It's much more efficient to do that in writing than it is to get everyone in the room and have them listen to you. So there's no quicker way to ensure that everyone in the meeting will sit there on their phones or their laptops doing other stuff, than to organize a meeting that's solely for the purpose of…
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