Hi, it's Miriam. 

 

Welcome back to the At Work Tune Up, your insider’s playbook with practical, quick, tips on how to improve your team dynamics, keeping things healthy and productive at work.

 

We spend a lot of time at work. We should love what we do.

 

Make meetings better.  

 

If they're boring, if anyone dreads it, or isn't showing up with 110% enthusiasm, something's not right.  

 

 

How to do this? Keep reading ⬇️

Change how you start your meetings. 

 

Instead of welcoming people and asking them for a quick check-in whip around on what everyone is working on, try this: 

 

"Right now, there is a company down the block who are sitting around a table, and they planning how to get ahead of us and tap into our weak links. How are we stopping them and getting ahead? Each person, report on what you're doing this week and how it is helping us move forward toward our goals."

 

That's a lot more compelling than the ho-hum weekly check in. 

 

📣 Managers: Write a mini-script for yourself to frame your standard meetings with a conflict and fiery cause. This small change will make a big difference with how your team responds to time sitting around together in meetings. 

 

For a deeper dive, listen to this podcast on how to make meetings better.  We have no problem sitting through movies that are more than an hour long - sometimes two or three hours! It's not sitting that makes meetings boring; it's a lack of relevance, caring about the characters and framing for why we should care. 

 

Listen to Patrick Lencioni and The Table Group discuss Meetings & Movies. 

Podcast Episode 6: Meetings + Movies 

Podcast length: 21 minutes 

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