5 Proven Strategies to Make People Love Your Meetings
Easy methods to make your meetings less like a hostage situation and more like free tickets to the Eras Tour.
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3 min readDec 16, 2023
Meetings are more shopworn than we want to admit. Face it, if we had another alternative, would we schedule a meeting?
Who hasn’t sat through a meeting only to think at the end, “That could’ve been an email.” Boring, ineffective, and a huge waste of time? Yep. Yet, no one knows what to do instead.
Here are five things you can do to shake your meetings up.
This is the fastest way to find out if anyone gives a hoot about a meeting.
Make the meeting optional and see who comes. In big type at the top of the invite, add, “This Meeting is Optional.” Don’t fake this; be sincere in the offer and be honest with yourself about the result.
You’ll learn very quickly which of your meetings need an overhaul and how burnt out your team might be.
No one wants to sit through this.
“Let’s take this offline” has become a common refrain for a good reason. No one wants…
