From the course: Improve Meetings Using Lean Thinking
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Concise and specific focus
From the course: Improve Meetings Using Lean Thinking
Concise and specific focus
- Ever been in a meeting that goes down one rabbit hole after another? Before you know it, an hour is gone and nothing's decided. Clear goals and concise focus are what turned meetings into progress, not just talk. "This is the first meeting in months that ended on time! Can we do this for all meetings?" That actually happened in a marketing meeting I sat at at a company where I was introducing lean-thinking principles. Sarah, the project manager, greeted the attendees. "Good morning everyone! Before we start, I want to try something new. Our last few meetings have been run over because we keep getting sidetracked. So today we're going to have one single focus: selecting our Q2 marketing channels. That's it! No side discussions, no distractions," which reflects on a lean-thinking concept that helps visualize a gap as a space between where we are and where we need to be. By defining that narrow gap, only one topic at a time can be dealt with, which keeps meetings purposeful and on…
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