Six Ways to Improve Your Management Meetings

<p>Earlier this year, I started observing the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dave-bailey.com/blog/ceo-meetings" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">management meetings</a>&nbsp;of some of my fastest-growing CEOs.</p> <p>The companies they lead range from 50 to 500 employees &mdash; but each of the CEOs had similar concerns about their meetings:</p> <ul> <li>&lsquo;They feel superficial&rsquo;</li> <li>&lsquo;My managers don&rsquo;t engage or challenge each other enough&rsquo;</li> <li>&lsquo;I leave feeling anxious, with more questions than answers&rsquo;</li> </ul> <p>After each meeting, I played back my observations to the CEO, along with suggestions to improve engagement and effectiveness. Surprisingly, the same issues came up again and again.</p> <p>Here are six of the most common opportunities that might apply to your management meetings.</p> <p><img alt="Six ways to improve management meetings" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/0*c8kA1AWWwiv9q35g" style="height:394px; width:700px" /></p> <p>Six opportunities to maximise the value of every meeting</p> <h1>1) Reduce the number of attendees (for depth)</h1> <p>As&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dave-bailey.com/blog/scale-up-organisation" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">your company grows</a>, it&rsquo;s typical for your management meeting to grow with it. During my observations, I attended management meetings with up to 20 managers&hellip; and they were as unengaging as they sound (even the CEO agreed!).</p> <p>There&rsquo;s a clear incentive to invite more people &mdash; you don&rsquo;t have to fill them in later. However, the longer the attendee list, the lower your ability to go beyond superficial updates and hold people accountable.</p> <p>If you have more than eight managers, it might be time to ask some hard questions:</p> <p><a href="https://medium.dave-bailey.com/six-ways-to-improve-your-management-meetings-3043ca0d98d4"><strong>Visit Now</strong></a></p>