We’ve all be in our share of badly run meetings that leave us scratching our heads about what the point was or why you wasted your valuable time attending. It can feel like one giant “Fail Whale“. (Remember Tweeps? The early days of Twitter threw a “Fail Whale” graphic every time it got too much traffic!) This article is a round-up of my tips about why meetings fail and how to avoid it.
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How to Review Your Team’s Performance
If your program leads change in a large organization, one of your primary challenges will be to find out where you are today and where you are going in the future. It should come as no surprise that most of the time everyone you talk to has a different take on both ends of the question. How you reconcile the different points of view will in large measure determine whether you succeed or fail. Your mission is to review your team’s current performance. So where do you begin?
My favorite trick is to pull a page from a Canadian playbook. Several years back, their government put a focus on citizen service across all their agencies. In order to jump-start the effort, everyone got a roadmap tool that walks them through the necessary steps to transform their organizations.
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Speak with Authority, Concern and Enthusiasm: Be an ACE
To be successful in your career you need to master the ability to present your ideas and persuade others to your point of view. If you fail to do this you are likely to plateau and see others advance while you stall.
This skill helps you to make successful pitches of your ideas and opinions on the job, conduct engaging community outreach meetings and captivate the media when you do interviews. Presentation chops let you shine as a leader in your organization.
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