Having great weekly meetings is the secret to increasing your speed of execution and getting more
"Wow! Really? Mine suck. In fact, I am thinking of stopping my weekly status meeting altogether,” a friend said to me. When I asked him why, he shared that they were boring, tedious, and his team could not wait for the weekly status meeting to be over so that they could get some real work done. The British Psychological Society reported that $37B each year is lost to unproductive meetings. Clearly, some of those dollars were my buddy’s.
“Well, let’s try and de-suck your meeting before we kill it.”
Most weekly meetings are status meetings. My chart below gives you a quick comparison between the typical status meeting and the Weekly Adjustment Meeting that we advocate.
Here are a few minor adjustments you can make to transform your time-sucking weekly status meeting into a productive weekly adjustment meeting:
My buddy made these changes and immediately started having productive meetings. I asked him a few weeks later, “Dude, how are your weekly meetings now? Do you still want to kill them?”
He said “No! They are great. We get real work done in the meetings.”
The weekly meeting is the cornerstone of increasing the speed of execution in your company so that you can get more strategic initiatives done.
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