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Oct 30Liked by Torsten Walbaum

I've been enjoying all your posts, and this one is particularly timely for me, as I'm actively working on getting better at this. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience!

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At some point, meetings were ~80% of my day. So they were by far the most impactful thing to focus on making better.

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I fully resonate with what you are saying. Unfortunately, I have never worked in a department where people were paying attention or even enforcing these rules.

It all cascades from the leadership, and most meetings in companies have no agenda or even details, it's usually a title like "Project X update."

If half of the meetings had more details and the right people would come prepared, this would save so much time.

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Most companies lack discipline in this regard. In my experience, the only choice you have is to lead by example.

If you run meetings that are 5x better than the average meeting, people will notice. And at some points, they will say "Leo's meetings always have a clear agenda and follow-ups; why doesn't this one?"

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Great post! Thanks for putting this all together in an easily digestible format. One thing that helped in the past was having designated someone as the facilitator and another person as the time keeper, in addition to the leader of the meeting. Zingtrain has some great materials on this: https://www.zingtrain.com/webinar/how-to-make-your-meetings-more-effective/

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