Six Ways to Improve Your Management Meetings
<p>Earlier this year, I started observing the <a href="https://www.dave-bailey.com/blog/ceo-meetings" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">management meetings</a> of some of my fastest-growing CEOs.</p>
<p>The companies they lead range from 50 to 500 employees — but each of the CEOs had similar concerns about their meetings:</p>
<ul>
<li>‘They feel superficial’</li>
<li>‘My managers don’t engage or challenge each other enough’</li>
<li>‘I leave feeling anxious, with more questions than answers’</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>
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<p>Six opportunities to maximise the value of every meeting</p>
<h1>1) Reduce the number of attendees (for depth)</h1>
<p>As <a href="https://www.dave-bailey.com/blog/scale-up-organisation" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">your company grows</a>, it’s typical for your management meeting to grow with it. During my observations, I attended management meetings with up to 20 managers… and they were as unengaging as they sound (even the CEO agreed!).</p>
<p>There’s a clear incentive to invite more people — you don’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>
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