Many companies have two types of meetings, listed below: Tip #1: Improve the quality of existing meetings In the rest of this post, we're going to offer some suggestions to help.
We believe that effective meetings are critical to balancing the needs of those on the maker's schedule and those on the manager's schedule.
How do we balance these two modes of work? If someone is on a manager's schedule, meetings is one of the best mechanisms for organizing and aligning the people producing the output.įor the maker, too many meetings can create roadblocks to output, increasing the probability of missed deadlines. Without the manager's schedule, coordination is extremely difficult, causing people problems. In other words, balancing both of these schedules is necessary to making sure work gets done. By analogy, a coach or quarterback alone does not score touchdowns and win games." "The key definition here is that the output of manager is a result achieved by a group either under his supervision or under his influence. While the manager's own work is clearly very important, that in itself does not create output. If the manager has a group of people reporting to him or a circle of people influenced by him, the manager's output must be measure by the output created by his subordinates and associates." "A manager can do his 'own' job, his individual work, and do it well, but that does not constitute his output. The focus is on organizing the people making the stuff. As Andy Grove writes in High Output Management (the best business book I've ever read): On the flipside, the managers's schedule is based around coordination of people who produce the output. If this happened consistently, I would struggle to get work done. Then, after answering the question, it would take 10-15 minutes to get back into the problem at hand. I remember when I worked as as an engineer, I would start to achieve a sense of "flow" in my work, only to be interrupted by someone with a question, comment or a meeting. In the maker's schedule, constant interruptions are bad news.
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