Meeting Minutes

In this episode we try to understand the existence of vicious cycles in companies meeting culture. We discuss specific examples and potential approaches to rectify.

In this episode, we analyze the findings published in the Harvard Business Review article, Hybrid Work Has Changed Meetings Forever. We share our opinions on some of the questions raised by the article.

In this episode we dive into retro meetings. Why companies have them, what are some of the pitfalls and what can be done to improve them.

In this episode we explore the idea that the meeting you organize image how you are perceived in the organization. We go into some positive and negative examples and provide tips for how to improve the perception that your meetings create.

Meeting as a Service is a new concept. We explore the idea that meetings should be treated as a service that the company provides to employees. Like other services it should provide value that can be measured. We also include some practical steps for starting to treat meetings as a serivce.

Steering committees and pipeline review meetings are some of the meeting types that fall into this category of aggregating seemingly discrete conversations into a single meetings. In this episode we explore some of the inefficiencies of this format and learn about solutions that different companies implemented to replace this format.

Every had a meeting outside or on the floor? In this episode we discuss the idea of taking meetings out of the meeting room. How to do this and what meetings are a good fit.

In this episode we discuss the roles that people have in meetings and how to handle assignment of roles so that the load is better distributed.

Elon Musk is famously quote as expecting his employees to leave meetings in the middle if they are not contributing. In this episode we discuss the merits of that and in general how to develop a culture where it’s ok for people to decline meetings.

One of the most common complaints we receive is about meetings with no decisions. This episode discusses why meetings fail to reach a decision. Explores some common problems and offers solutions.