Death By Meeting December 30
I have recently borrowed a book from a colleague: “Death by meeting” from Patrick Lencioni. He is consultant in his own firm: the table group.
This book is starting by a fable about a company that has really uninteresting meetings. A new employee will help the CEO to understand and enhance these meetings.
Everything is around conflicts and having a meeting for each purpose.
The book, that is quick and easy to read, demonstrates that you need four meetings:
- Daily check-in: a 5 minutes daily meeting to share daily schedules and activities.
- Weekly tactical: a 1 hour weekly meeting to review weekly activities and metrics and resolve tactical obstacles and issues.
- Monthly strategic: a 2-4 hours monthly meeting to discuss, analyse, brainstorm and decide up on critical issues affecting long term success.
- Quarterly off-site review: a 1-2 days quarterly meeting to review strategy, competitive landscape, team development.
Any manager could at least implement weekly tactical and monthly strategic meetings. My colleague has started them and I will do the same next year. I am waiting for a first monthly strategic meeting to check how people in the team will react to positive conflicts.