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.
Remote Leadership is a different beast of leadership. You need to reach out, engage, discuss, follow up, call (yes call), and organize sit-downs. You can’t just walk by someone’s desk and see they’re having a bad day, you need to reach out to them, you need to talk to them, you need to find a way to poke without disrupting them. It’s not easy, it takes effort, and it takes a change in the style…
Yourself. Your actions. Your purpose. You can make the best of a bad situation or the worst of a great one. Everything is in your hands in how you approach and how you deal with the situation at hand. That is you can control, that is where you can help people, that is where you can lead.
You can stop the meeting whenever you want. No one is holding you back. Many are probably hoping that you do. The ones who end the meeting without the “let me give you back 5 minutes of your day” are the ones who see the direction and value as fleeting and are willing to call it in an effort to do something better tomorrow – maybe change the objective, the roster or the time. But…
How many meetings can you handle in a week? 5? 10? 15? 1? 2? If your limit is something like 12? Why are you taking more? Why are you accepting more? The failure in our meetings is that no one knows what our actual limit is so we keep scheduling simply because we can. We can keep pouring water into a glass because there is space in it, it doesn’t mean we want to drink…