If all the world’s a stage then so is every meeting – and you are the playwright.by bestselling author Patrick Lencioni in Chief Executive magazine. But it’s not just CEOs who call and attend meetings. We all do, and can shape them.
To counter meeting boredom and make meetings more effective, he has been preaching since the publication of his 2004 bookfor more conflict, which is of course the ingredient that keeps us excited at the theatre. By conflict, he means anxious situations that need to be resolved. The leader must search for conflict and when it breaks out, indicate that’s fine – colleagues should be challenging each other, to improve meetings and decisions.
That’s a useful schema but, of course, many of our meetings are called around a specific problem, ad hoc or a continuing series. I’ve seen advice that no meeting should be called if the decision can be made by a single decision maker; no need for that person to pass the buck to others. That makes sense, but there is a value to collaboration, done well.
Globe_Careers You most obvious evaluation of managers is: staff turnover. That's the bellwether for any company. Obviously, a high turnover speaks loudly to who the real problem is. You can lose only so many employees before the real issue becomes all too apparent.