How The Best Companies Rock Virtual Meetings

My sister told me she’s in meetings for most of the day, so I told her to quit.

Many meetings are a bureaucratic process to help managers feel in control — to stroke their “leadership” ego. There’s no other reason to have so many stupid meetings that are an insanely expensive waste of productive time.

I can imagine meetings have gotten worse in the virtual world as managers need to feel more in control. But managers don’t need more control, they need better results, and most results aren’t achieved in a meeting.

If you want to make your remote meetings more impactful, do this:

Have a purpose for your meeting.

Every meeting deserves a great deal of thought and a plan.

You’re investing time to gather people together, so your attendees better leave thinking that the meeting was worth their time.

Every meeting needs a good purpose. A purpose that says, when we leave this meeting, it will significantly improve something we’re working on.

Meetings to review status updates and numbers are pointless (unless it’s an accountability conversation).

Start your meeting with a hook.