Meeting Expectations

As we continue to develop our thinking facilitation tools (Thinklets), MindSights  is moving away from the concept of “meetings”.  Nobody likes them.  Everybody hates them.  So how do we change our expectations about meetings?  And how do we insure that our meetings meet our expected outcomes?

We have decided to think about meetings as collaborations rather than “meetings.”  Changing the word may help us change our expectations.  Collaboration is a natural outcome of interpersonnal communicaitons.  Meetings put an artificial shell around that collaborative process.  It often forces us to compartmentalize the time we spend in meetings into structured discussions that often seem designed more for the “minutes” and  the hours spent in unproductive discussions that just result in more minutes.

So instead of avoiding meetings let turn them into productive collaborations.  Every job related conversation should move something toward closure, develop an original thought, improve a process, identify a need, etc.  Instead of a “meeting of the minds”, let’s encourage a “collaboration of the minds”.

So, wasn’t that easy?  No more meetings!  Simply said.  Simply done …with Thinklets from MindSights.