Make Your Meetings Energetic
Patrick Lencioni, author of Death By Meeting, recommends adding drama and appreciating conflict in meetings. How might you add drama and energy to your meetings?
He recommends learning from movies that are interactive and engaging:
1. Set a “plot” at the beginning of the meeting. Highlight a competitive threat. Emphasize the danger of making a wrong decision. Appeal to the larger mission. Describe the impact on all stakeholders.
2. Give participants a reason to CARE – about the meeting and its consequences.
Further, Lencioni points out that disagreements are natural and resolving them is what makes meetings productive, engaging, and fun.
Reading this, ask yourself, “What, specifically, can I do to add energy to my meetings?“