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Meeting Practices That Support Innovation
Mamie Kanfer Stewart
The strongest message about how you want your culture to perform is embedded in how you conduct your meetings.
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”Bob Pothier Director of Partners in Leadership, former GE executive@MeeteorH
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Culture is theSet of beliefs and behaviors that determine how a company's employees act and interact.Culture is expressed as implicit or explicitRituals, values, norms, systems, symbols, language, and habits.
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Meetings are where decisions are made, insights and ideas shared, relationships built, and power expressed.@MeeteorHQ@MamieKS
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TECHNOLOGYCOACHING
SKILL BUILDING
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On average, managers and senior executives spend half their time in meetings.
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62 meetings are a waste of
time
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$37 billionper year in
unproductive meetings
per month attended on
average
1/3
Learnings are only as good as your response.
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MEASURE
BUILD
LEARN
Moving quickly means maintaining alignment is harder.
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Set a desired outcome for every meeting.
#1
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List of…Agreement on…Decision on…Alignment on…Ideas for…Events scheduled…Stronger relationships…Completed…
Use norms to establish expected behaviors in meetings.
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● Ask how might we and think boldly.
● Customer’s feedback is more important than our opinions.
● Challenge assumptions and voice concerns.
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Take notes, share them and build a knowledge bank.
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Capture and organize:● Notes● Tasks● Decisions● Learnings
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LEARNINGN T D L
Learnings are insights, critical information, or ‘ah-ha’s that you want to call out as important and quickly find in the future.
NOTEN T D L
Notes are general conversation that give context for historical purposes.
TASKN T D L
Tasks are action items to be done. Assign an owner and list a due date.
DECISIONN T D L
Decisions are agreements. Be sure to include a rationale or explanation for why the decision was made.
Meetings are a microcosm of your company.
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Set a desired outcome for every meeting.
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Use norms to establish expected behaviors in meetings.
Take notes, share them and build a knowledge bank.
Meeting Practices That Support Innovation
Mamie Kanfer Stewart
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