7 hours of meetings and no time for work
Friday, February 14, 2020 at 7:40PM 
This is a reality, stuck in meetings each day, trying to do the work, but being locked in back-to-back meetings giving you no time to actually do the work.
Is this your world too?
While we need meetings to collaborate, communicate, co-design and co-create, most organisations still haven’t worked out how to support their leaders to run meetings in ways that are more productive, creative, effective and collaborative.
These are the four outcomes good sensemaking + facilitation delivers in meetings:
🌕 productive
🌕 creative
🌕 effective
🌕 collaborative.
At your next meeting, ask or enquire: What sensemaking techniques are we using today, to help us understand each other and help us make these important decisions?
If you get blank faces as a response, or ’the PowerPoint deck’, or ‘Karen is taking minutes’ … these all get the ’no/wrong’ buzzer from me. Bzzzzt!
With 7 hours of meetings, the meetings aren’t working. They’re not making sense; likely going around in circles; and lacking focus, leadership and outcomes.
You need just one sensemaker in the room to completely change how a meeting works.
Are you the one?
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