This Is the Only Meeting Your Team Needs Before the Holidays

Problems won’t go away if you ignore them

Problems won’t go away if you ignore them

Tackle your team’s problems before everybody leaves for the holidays- Photo by Pawel Chu

“If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be meetings.” ― Dave Barry

Before this year is over, most people might have spent at least 500 hours in meetings. I’m sorry if you are one of those.

In the past few years, I’ve been able to reduce the number of meetings I attend dramatically. And to keep most of them under 15 minutes. I don’t want to spend my time where I cannot provide (or receive) any value.

Meetings are a necessary evil, but they don’t need to be a painful experience.

Teams spend too much time dealing with fire drills. They meet to deal with them and then regroup to report on how they put the fire out. But they don’t get together to work on a most critical matter: how to improve their game.

That’s the most important reason for your team to meet befor…