{"id":3986,"date":"2023-10-12T01:18:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T06:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3986"},"modified":"2023-09-30T06:30:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T11:30:02","slug":"the-meeting-is-over-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2023\/10\/the-meeting-is-over-now\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meeting Is Over, Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Once a meeting ends, the after meeting begins and the real work is done. Can we do this better?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve seen it a thousand times\u2014literally a thousand times. I&#8217;ve attended that many meetings. The meeting has its agenda and participants. The meeting is conducted. We are finished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People stay in the room or the hallway just outside the room or (my least favorite) in the bathroom down the hall. &#8220;Ya&#8217; know,&#8221; begins the after-meeting conversation, &#8220;I was thinking while we were talking in the meeting, and &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What ensues is the best exchange of ideas all day. The after meeting brings much better information to a limited audience than the meeting did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several thoughts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Maybe the limited audience of the after meeting was a smaller, better size.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maybe the limited audience of the after meeting had just the right people and no one else.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maybe the actual meeting should have had scheduled quiet times where people could think before the next topic was raised.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maybe the agenda of the actual meeting was wrong.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maybe the actual meeting was designed to limit thought and ideas.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maybe we are doing the actual meetings all wrong.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps the last bullet summarizes all of this: we are doing the meetings all wrong. The free form of the after meeting is a much better format for thought and ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s do better. Here is one suggestion; at some point in the actual meeting (on the agenda) someone stands and says, &#8220;We aren&#8217;t having any after meetings. This is it, folks. Let&#8217;s take a five-minute break (actually timed) with no talking during the break. After the break, we will chat like we usually do in after meetings. Let&#8217;s officially capture all those usually-said-in-the-after-meetings thoughts. And, there will be a 24-hour period where anyone can add to the meeting notes with an email or something.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s do better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Once a meeting ends, the after meeting begins and the real work is done. Can we do this better? I&#8217;ve seen it a thousand times\u2014literally a thousand times. I&#8217;ve attended that many meetings. The meeting has its agenda and participants. The meeting is conducted. We are finished. People stay in the room [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,21,20,9,25,50,67],"tags":[171,143,142,132,147,172,187],"class_list":["post-3986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adapting","category-change","category-learning","category-management","category-meetings","category-thinking","category-work","tag-adapting","tag-change","tag-learning","tag-management","tag-meetings","tag-thinking","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3987,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986\/revisions\/3987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}