“Nothing ever gets done in meetings. Meetings are a waste of time. Meetings are of no value.”
For a list of reasons, we all try to avoid getting stuck in a meeting that goes on and on. There are many suggestions to improve meeting productivity, but all will be for naught if your meeting does not include Mitch Zenger’s first recommendation.
Source: Meetings at Work/LinkedIn. Link. Selecting an outcome for each topic will allow the team to stay more focused on reaching that outcome and enable each member to understand appropriate behaviors vs. inappropriate behaviors during the meeting discussion.
INSIGHT: “Discussing COVID 19 protocols,” is not an outcome. “Determining how to best adapt COVID 19 protocols to our practice,” is an outcome.