Supercharge Your Meetings: Secrets to Engaging and Productive Team Meetings

Have you ever experienced a meeting that seems to drag on endlessly with no clear outcome or decision? Have you found yourself wishing there was an easier way to collaborate and develop productive solutions as a team? Well, the truth is that energized and productive meetings can happen with strategic planning and careful facilitation. It is possible for you to create engaging get-togethers where everyone feels heard. In this blog post, I will share my top secrets for supercharging your meetings so they become more impactful than ever before. Read on if you’re ready to take your meetings to the next level. Now, let’s get down to business with our six actionable tips: <h2>Why a Meeting?</h2> Good question. In our current culture, where there are so many options for when, where, and how to meet, we often lose focus on the one thing that defines this time commitment: why are we doing this? <blockquote> “Take the reasons you think you are gathering — because it’s our departmental Monday-morning meeting; because it’s a family tradition to barbecue at the lake — and keep drilling below them. Ask why you’re doing it. Every time you get to another, deeper reason, ask why again. Keep asking why until you hit a belief or value.” ― Priya Parker, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/58588048" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters</a> </blockquote> Notice the word “value” in the above quote. Meetings should be value-driven and not just something that “we do because that’s what we do.” When you define the why behind your meeting, it gives you a clearer vision of WHO you need to include in the meeting and WHAT the meeting should be about. <a href="https://medium.com/leadup/supercharge-your-meetings-secrets-to-engaging-and-productive-team-meetings-cc0288dae832">Learn More</a>