{"database": "pelican", "table": "content", "rows": [["ryan", "musings", "To say that I attend a lot of meetings is a bit of an understatement. However,\nas a manager that is part of my job and I accept that it is something I need\nto do.\n\nWhat I have been trying to do at my office is lead more effective meetings,\nbut also to encourage my colleagues to have more effective meetings as well.\n\nIt's been challenging as the organization I work for is large and all I can do\nis lead by example with the meetings that I am in.\n\nUntil now ... maybe\n\nI read an article on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com) titled [Tired of\nwasting time in meetings? Try this](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tired-\nwasting-time-meetings-try-oisin-grogan) and there were several suggestions for\nbetter meetings some of which I already knew:\n\n  1. Define the purpose of the meeting\n  2. Define the outcome of the meeting\n  3. Have a timed agenda and someone in charge\n\nAnd others that I didn't:\n\n  1. Facts - not opinions!\n  2. Keep people on-point. (Only talk about matters relating to their job)\n\nI think that number 4 is a key idea for any meeting (that isn't a\nbrainstorming meeting) but number 5 is a bit too much. Keeping people on point\nis an important aspect to any meeeting, but only allowing people to talk about\nmatters related to their job ... what is the dividing line between 'my job'\nand 'not my job'?\n\nThis seems like it wouldn't actually have the intended outcome. I think people\nwho are already quite will be encouraged to stay quite as the topic isn't\nrelated to their job (even if it might be) and those that talk too much\nalready will assume that everything is related to their job so they will still\ncontribute inappropriately.\n\nI think that point 5 is much better when restated as:\n\n  1. Keep people on-point, only talk about the current agenda item\n\nThe article did include a nice diagram that you can download (need to provide\nan email address first).\n\n", "2017-02-04", "making-better-meetings-maybe", "To say that I attend a lot of meetings is a bit of an understatement. However,\nas a manager that is part of my job and I accept that it is something I need\nto do.\n\nWhat I have been trying to do at my office is lead more effective \u2026\n\n", "Making Better Meetings ... maybe", "https://www.ryancheley.com/2017/02/04/making-better-meetings-maybe/"]], "columns": ["author", "category", "content", "published_date", "slug", "summary", "title", "url"], "primary_keys": ["slug"], "primary_key_values": ["making-better-meetings-maybe"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.2274421751499176}