Our AHD team likes the perspective that everyone in a meeting is responsible for making it valuable. We have all wasted time in poorly organized meetings. This article has something for anyone who attends meetings.
Source: Harvard Business Review, May 16, 2016.
Three broad perspectives are available to you in every meeting:
- You can offer to do things to support your boss in preparing, leading, and following up after the meeting.
- You have a right to ask for whatever you need to be effective in the meeting.
- You can choose to be responsible for the experience of other people in the meeting.