Falcon Invoice Discounting: Empowering Your Business Growth
14 07-08 meetings - a guide
1. T H E T H T G U I D E T O A V O I D I N G M E E T I N G S
A N D W H A T T O D O I F Y O U R E A L L Y H A V E T O
H A V E A M E E T I N G
“Meetings are indispensable when
you don’t want to do anything”
John Kenneth Galbraith
2. What’s going on in your meeting?
High listening, Low doing
therapy
High Listening, High
doing
productivity
Low Listening, Low doing
bureaucracy
Low Listening, High Doing
ignorance
DOING
LISTENING
3. How to have less meetings
Could you just have the
conversation now rather
than deferring listening
until the meeting happens?
Are you using meetings to
defer decisions?
4. Would being more of an activist and less of a reflector help sometimes?
Vs
5. Q - How many of us have smart
phones?
A – that’s all of us then….
6. How are you collaborating?
http://gizmodo.com/5904653/what-
is-google-drive
8. Would a daily/weekly huddle save time?
1. What’s the good news?
2. What are you working in
today?
3. What’s our progress to
deliver the Business Plan?
4. Where are you stuck?
5. Are you ok for tomorrow?
9. Need a clue about how to behave?
OK you so you need a meeting at THT….
Follow our values and you won’t go far wrong…
10. - Arrive on time
Living the Values in Meetings - Examples
- Ensure you’ve completed any
actions from the last meeting
- Find ways to include those who are present but silent
- Don’t talk over or interrupt other speakers
- Remove Distractions – no
laptops, iPads or phones unless
they are being used to take notes or
deliver presentations
- Design agendas that are
purposeful and therefore respectful
of people’s time and commitment
- Every now and again,
schedule time at the end of
a meeting to evaluate how
that meeting went:
• What did we do in this
meeting that really
worked well?
• What happened that we
never want to repeat?
• Are there bad habits
that we seem to keep
falling into?
11. But how do you have fabulous meetings?
40%
40%
20%
