Leading With Small Talk

More than a few times I have written about the need to curb what I call Meeting Culture at companies. The rise of meetings in corporate life, I believe, has stifled productivity and created an arena for competition over how good you are at meeting etiquette, presenting, or facilitating meetings. It’s gotten so bad that there are meetings about meetings. When are people supposed to do the work when they are constantly being asked to talk about the work rather than get it done? In the post-pandemic workplace, the rules are being re-written and it turns out that meetings may have new value that I would have never expected. But like many new norms in business today leaders need to adapt so that the changing needs of the people that they manage are integrated into the culture. <h2>Please No More Meetings!</h2> I was sitting there reading a case study of an employee survey when I saw what I thought was a typo. I rubbed my eyes and started digging into the details of a large survey (500+ respondents) at a well-known national corporation in the finance sector. The survey shared insights from a recent staff survey. Up to the point I saw that bizarre data point the bulk of the responses to the survey were textbook. That is, until I saw the one thing that I never expected because it was counter to everything I knew about meetings. <a href="https://medium.com/modern-leadership/leading-with-small-talk-45f189951e16">Website</a>