Good Meeting. Yeah, Good Meeting.

Incredibly Simple Meeting Rules

Sometimes simple is good. I’m going to be doing a set of “Incredibly Simple Management Rules” over the next little while. Reason: leadership, vision, strategy, emotional intelligence, compassion and mindfulness are great. But none of it works really well without having the basics of management nailed down (and sometimes, if you’re further along in your career, brushed up a bit).

Herewith. Incredibly Simple Rules for Running a Meeting:

• make sure the meeting has a purpose.
• the purpose can be: decision, update or brainstorming. That’s it, that’s the whole list.
• if the meeting has no purpose, don’t call it.
• have an agenda which matches the purpose.
• put aside time to create the agenda.
• choose the minimum number of people necessary to fit the purpose of the meeeting.
• schedule the meeting.
• start on time.
• pay attention during the meeting: face-time is the highest bandwidth communication you can have with a human being. use it!
• stick to the agenda.
• re-iterate decision and followup actions and responsibilities.
• finish on time.

Told you it was simple! Feel free to print it out :-)