3 Methods For Highly Effective Executive Meeting Planning And Scheduling
With regards to successful or effective business meeting planning, what it really comes down to is planning, but planning loose. If you’ve decided to allot exactly X number of minutes to this subject, and X amount of minutes to that subject, you’re not actually going to get anywhere with the discussion, since you may be just seconds away from a breakthrough only to have to stop discussing it because you’re out of time. Breakthroughs aren’t made on a restrictive time frame.
Plan your meetings around a couple of things, know the points you want to go after during that meeting, and leave it at that. Don’t set your meeting up with an itinerary, don’t think that you can predict exactly who’s going to say what during the meeting, just have a loose idea of what’s going to happen, what’s going to be discussed. Here are a few tips to keep in mind before the next meeting planning.
Don’t Bite Off More Than You Can Chew
Again, you won’t solve every problem in the company in a single meeting. Plan to keep your meeting focused on just one subject and keep it focused on that subject. Don’t think you’re going to make your own name on the Fortune 500 after a single meeting. If you get too ambitious, the only thing you’ll succeed is in frustrating your employees and confusing them. You won’t really accomplish anything because unless you’re focused, you can’t accomplish much, so set your sights realistically.
One Objective At That Time
Set one goal, let your people know what that goal is, and achieve it during the meeting. Just one goal. If you give them a dozen things to do, they won’t know where to start, so give them just one goal and they’ll march right towards it over the course of the meeting. Again, it’s all about focus and simplicity. When we over-complicate everything, it tends to show a lack of confidence, as if more planning will make up for a lack of skill or competency. To a true master, everything is made simple.
Meet Around Noon
Or whenever the mid-day is for your company. You don’t want to do it in the morning or else you have loads of grumpy people who really don’t want to be here. After lunch, everyone gets slow and sluggish having just had big meals. Around the mid-day is when your people have had their coffee, they’ve woken up, and they’re ready to actually provide their own thoughts while at the same time listening during the meeting, as opposed to just zoning out looking forward to their first cup of joe.
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