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5 Tips for Managers on How To Hold A Great Meeting
Meetings are a vital glue of every organization’s daily operations.
They provide opportunities for discussing priorities and challenges, goal alignment, decision-making, collaboration, feedback, check-in with the team, and ultimately, communication to propel things forward.
As the world continues to encourage working remotely, meetings are more important now than ever.
Despite the great potential of meetings, there’s also an opportunity cost when they are not done properly.
A study by Fellow.app, reported meetings are costing companies anywhere between $43,008–$56,448 USD every year per manager.
Now, imagine the additional managers, executives, and individual contributors who also partake in several meetings each week.
On average, people can attend anywhere between 11 to 15 meetings per week, which can consume a ton of unnecessary time if not executive properly.
Fellow reports the following statistics:
- 45% of execs attend 6-16 meetings per week.
- 49% of directors attend 16-21 meetings per week.
- Directors tend to have the highest number of meetings.
- 31% of managers attend 16+ meetings per week.
- 30% of individual contributors attend 5 or fewer meetings per week.
Poorly planned meetings lack a sense of direction, and as a result, can leave its development up to chance.
A lack of clarity for the purpose, attendance value, and general preparation can also indirectly impact employee engagement, throw off employee productivity, and decrease team innovation.
For startups, which already struggle with resources such as time, finances, talent, etc., a poorly planned meeting adds to the burden of the organization.
As a result, ineffective meetings can slow down productivity and ultimately the effectiveness of teams.
Despite all of this, when done right, meetings can be a huge boon for you to optimize your most powerful tool—communication.
Contrary to some people’s thoughts, natural socializing tendencies such as side conversations can be immensely helpful to enhance team cohesion and team success.
Meetings (especially virtual ones) can be a potential obstacle to these socializing tendencies that a team might want to engage in.
For managers who are unsure how to properly host meetings, leadership coaching programs are a great resource to level up these important skills.
💡 Learn more about different programs on leadership training for managers and which one is best for your team.
As a manager and leader of a team, hosting effective meetings is a required skill set to help guide your team to their utmost potential.
At its core, effective meetings come down to communication.
Communication is one of the most essential practices we should continuously work at mastering.
In this blog, we are going to cover tips on how you can facilitate more productive meetings, by addressing common pitfalls that could be costing your organization precious time, resources, and ultimately impact.
Let’s take a look at 5 best practices to implement for a great meeting 👇
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