Meetings make a big part of our lives. Many of us feel that most of them have a lot of non value added activities, or that they should not be there in the first place. How should meetings be run, to increase their effectiveness?
The Agile and Lean world has been promoting over the years the "stand up meeting", where basically people meet standing up, as there are no chairs. This induces people to get to the point, make decisions, and move on. Apart, they're probably healthier too!
Matt Homann recently shared in his blog a different way of conducting meetings that is used at innovation firm IDEO. It is based on participants to generate ideas, by asking the open question "how might we", and keeping a collaborative environment at all times.
Of course there are many other methods and techniques for running effective meetings, and everyone should use what best adapts to your particular situation, the key question is:
What are you doing to improve the way you conduct your meetings?
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