Episode 91 - Team Meetings That Bring Out The Best In People

<p class="p1"><strong>Summary</strong></p> <p class="p2">In this week’s Leadership Today podcast we look at a structure for team meetings to bring out the best in your people.</p> <p class="p3"> </p> <p class="p1"><strong>Transcript</strong></p> <p class="p2">Hello and welcome to episode 91 of the Leadership Today podcast where each week we tackle one of today’s biggest leadership challenges. This week we look at how to structure team meetings to bring out the best in your people.</p> <p class="p3"> </p> <p class="p2">A study released in July 2020 looked at the impact of pandemic-related lockdowns on over three million people across North America, Europe and the Middle East. Scouring through de-identified data from a technology firm, they found the number of meetings per person increased 13%, as did the number of attendees per meetings (14%). However the average length of meetings decreased by 20%, with an overall impact of people spending 12% less time per day in meetings. So more, shorter meetings with more people, but less time per day in meetings overall. But how effective are all those meetings?</p> <p class="p2">In episode 89 we looked at ways to make meetings better. Last week in episode 90 I shared a monthly one-on-one meeting structure. This week we round out our focus on meetings by walking through a team meeting structure I have been using for years.</p> <p class="p2">You will find the structure in the show notes. It includes:</p> <p class="p3"> </p> <p class="p2"><strong>Positives</strong></p> <p class="p2">What’s going well?</p> <p class="p3"> </p> <p class="p2"><strong>Negatives</strong></p> <p class="p2">What’s not going well? What's getting in the way at work?</p> <p class="p3"> </p> <p class="p2"><strong>Priorities</strong></p> <p class="p2">What are the current priorities as a team?</p> <p class="p3"> </p> <p class="p2"><strong>Support</strong></p> <p class="p2">How can we best support each other?</p> <p class="p3"> </p> <p class="p2"><strong>Interesting</strong></p> <p class="p2">What is on the