How’s your meetings rhythm? | Issue #208
What is the best meeting rhythm to optimise growth in your business?
Here’s a question. Do you spend all your time in meetings? Hour after hour and day after day? And despite all this meeting time, you feel like nothing is moving forwards? This is pretty common.
We often sit with clients and work out their OKRs and key priorities. That’s the easy bit. Once they’re agreed, they look at us and say, ‘When in our current business cycle do we fix any of these?’ They need a fundamental re-think of when and how they meet.
If you’re ambitious for growth, you need a regular drumbeat of carefully timed and structured meetings. These should be diarised, set in stone and stuck to without fail. Everyone in your business needs to get behind them. Based on my experience scaling three companies at speed, I suggest the following.
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Don’t miss the latest episode of The Melting Pot with Donna Serdula, author of LinkedIn Profile Optimization for Dummies, and founder of LinkedIn specialist firm LinkedIn-Makeover. Donna details how people should be thinking about this. She shares what you as an individual leader, a CEO, should be doing. How often should you post? Should you put hashtags on? If you do, which ones? Should you share content that’s already on the LinkedIn platform? Or try to get people to connect to content off the platform?
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MEANINGFUL ACTION FOR MONDAY
Take opportunities to coach your team in public
When you’re looking at behavioural issues, using the phrase ‘coach to correct’ is really helpful. It’s important to take opportunities to coach in public to make sure the people have the same understanding of culture.
We have a client with ‘being open and not defensive’ as a behaviour they aim to correct in their culture canvas. So in a discussion where people are being defensive and not open, you’ve got the opportunity to coach them to think about their perception of how they’re showing up, so that they get to reconsider at the moment.
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Quote of the week
“You have a meeting to make a decision, not to decide on the question.”
Bill Gates
Dominic Monkhouse
Dominic offers business coaching and management development, strategy planning and organisational change, using tried and tested methods to launch your organisation onto an unparalleled growth trajectory. His programme is a function of his broad experience, his deep expertise and a proven process used by over 2,700 firms worldwide.