Articles for category: Initiative

February 13, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Powerpoint Policy

When someone brings up a PowerPoint at a meeting what’s your first thought? How many slides until it’s over? How long is this going to take? What template did they use? Why are they using transitions? What value is this bringing? Amazon has an infamous no Powerpoint policy, does it work?  Does everyone remember everything they need to say? What if instead of having to talk about how to do something, you showed them what you did and how you’re doing it? Would that be more powerful than Powerpoint? Then start there, start with what would be the most powerful

February 11, 2024

Greg Thomas

Who Leads the Meeting?

Is it the person who called it? The one with the most seniority? The person who calls the meeting isn’t necessarily the one who’s going to lead it.  Their role was to get everyone together, but who leads it? What are you discussing?  What’s the problem you’re trying to solve? Start there, that’s your leader.

February 8, 2024

Greg Thomas

Whose got the Minutes?

Does someone need to take minutes in every meeting? That’s a job for a bot, a transcript, and an email. Don’t put someone in charge of writing minutes when they could be contributing so much more to the meeting at hand.

February 7, 2024

Greg Thomas

Meeting Follow-Ups

How many times have you shown up to the next meeting with no one having done their follow-ups for the next meeting? Next time it happens, that person gets no follow-ups, delegate to someone else who gets theirs done. If no one is getting follow-ups done, don’t assign them – sounds bad – but if no one’s doing what you need them to, then either you have the wrong roster in the meeting that cares or people are too overloaded to take on more work. That means the problem your meeting is trying to solve isn’t the top priority and

February 4, 2024

Greg Thomas

Get Up and Do it Again

When it doesn’t work the first, second, third, fourth, or fifth time. Get up and try again. It’s the only way you’ll make it work, but if you don’t get up the first four times, you’ll never get to the fifth to try it again.

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