Most Meetings Suck. Making Them Better Is On All of Us.
Why Meeting Culture matters — and how you can impact collaboration, inclusion, and productivity with a few simple tweaks.
We’ve all heard the joke, “this meeting could’ve been an email.” Chances are, we’ve all probably laughed at that joke, while simultaneously cringing, because we’ve experienced and understand the pain that is sitting through a meeting that is a waste of our time.
Nobody likes feeling like they’ve wasted their time. Nobody likes leaving a meeting feeling like their voice wasn’t heard. Yet, for some reason, a lot of companies (intentionally or not) accept those feelings as part and parcel of their meeting culture.
Building the right kind of culture is something a lot of companies — especially high tech companies — are extremely focused on. A company culture is made up of a lot of different pieces: core values, employee attitudes, team beliefs, annual goals, benefits, office perks, and the list goes on. One thing we don’t hear discussed in the realm of culture is how meetings fit in.
