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Meetings Waste of time or essential communication vehicle?

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Based on David Allen's 5 reasons to meet...a little diagnostic presentation you can use to frame a change around regularly scheduled meetings that are missing the mark.

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Meetings

Waste of time or essential communication vehicle?

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Communication: process that allows exchange information of by several methods

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Methods of communication

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Conversation

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Written

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Visual

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Auditory

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What method of communication is best for your environment?

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5 Reasons to meet….

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1) Give Information

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Is this the best way to give information?

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Consider…

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Attendance

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2) Get information

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Is this the best way to get it?

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3) Develop Options

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How often is everyone’s opinion needed to develop

options?

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4) Make Decisions

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Are the people at the meeting the ones accountable for

making the decision?

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5) Warm magical human contact

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Does this meeting serve this purpose?

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One of the worst reasons to meet….

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Regularly Scheduled Meeting

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Do we need to meet?

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Challenge: getting balance between wasting time and

keeping informed

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3 Options

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1. Continue with status quo- this is working well!

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2. Improve regular meetings

•Improve topic screening

•Include clarity on reason to meet

•Facilitated dialogue

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3. Dissolve these meetings

•Replace with quarterly strategy update/team building meeting