Did we accomplish our goal?

This is one of the hardest questions to ask at the end of a meeting: “Did we accomplish our goal?”

This is why it is so rarely asked: no one wants to hear the answer.

If, meeting after meeting, you were to hear the answer to this question being “No”, how demoralizing would that be?

Massively.

But the hard questions don’t come with easy answers, because the answers that come require work, hard work, tough work, work that makes you hang your head and wonder what you’ve taken on.

Did we accomplish our goal?

If not, what do we change to accomplish this next time.