3 Easy Tips For More Productive Team Meetings

Why are meetings so time consuming regarding team work and what can you do about it?

I'll show you what to take into consideration to make your team meeting effective - and I'll give you my 3 tips on how to make your team meetings even better and more successful!

As the managing director of my own company and as a manager for an international company, I was able to gain some experience in building and leading teams in all cultures.

At first I made many mistakes. But over time I learned what really matters. These days that´s what I teach as a coach for managers, leadership trainer and founder of the online leadership platform.

In team meetings in particular, the following applies: Well-intentioned doesn´t mean well done very often. There´s a lot of communicating going on so that everyone is in the know, everyone is informed about everything, but sometimes this is not effective but only time-consuming.

It is important that everyone on the team - team member or team leader – give serious thought to what the colleagues need in terms of information and how it is best communicated.
What is really important? What is significant?

[BerndGeropp]

Thanks for watching. I am curious. What are your best tips for good team meetings?

[achieving.excellence]

I tend to use the sandwich approach - start off 'easier' topics to get the group warmed up and receptive, tackle the more challenging topics in the middle and then close off with quick wins/action points to avoid decision fatigue and boost commitment.

[sandhyakadali]

My tip for successful team meetings is first starting with appreciations on the good work and ending with brainstorming on the solving the bottlenecks. The agenda has to be clear while the meeting is scheduled.

[davidshapiro]

I find the driving meetings to be conversations and saving all the "FYI" and notice items for other communications (like email and MSTeams news channel) help meetings a lot. I think the best meetigns are started with a question to the group, even a fun on that is out of cotxt to the meeting, something to get the jaws moving and people interacting helps a lot.

[eduardomangual]

I have this team member that always in every meeting wants to make a storm in a glass of water. Is so disrespectful sometimes that I don’t know if is better to confront her or just try to keep the meeting focused on action items.