Set the Agenda: Quality Meetings Don't Just Happen A newsletter from Jess Britt Consulting In this week's newsletter Hidden costs of depending too much on 1:1s Warm-up and check-out questions you can use today Tactical starter agenda: leading an early-stage decision-making meeting Relevant reads and listens Your weekly bird break I was in a meeting with a colleague about an upcoming change. We realized we needed to bring a couple other people into the conversation to get input on the...
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Set the Agenda: Quality Meetings Don't Just Happen A newsletter from Jess Britt Consulting In this week's newsletter How I made meetings less frustrating Warm-up and check-out questions you can use today Resource: your meeting objectives cheat sheet Your weekly bird break Several years ago I was extremely frustrated by how slowly a project was moving. I would set a meeting to move the project forward and in the meeting we’d spin on questions about key assumptions that we’d already covered....
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Set the Agenda: Quality Meetings Don't Just Happen A newsletter from Jess Britt Consulting In this week's newsletter Why the meeting you dread might be a hidden gem for your team Warm-up and checkout questions you can use today Q: People on my team are sharing inaccurate info and I'm strapped for time. What can I do? Your weekly bird break In a job early in my career we had an all-staff meeting every Monday morning. I loved that meeting. I was a project manager doing detailed...
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