Running Effective Meetings

When was your last bad meeting? Last week? Yesterday? An hour ago?
We’ve all been in bad meetings - meetings that drag on, meetings that don’t seem to have a purpose, and meetings that don’t end with concrete next steps. What’s the solution? In a new IHI Open School Short, Bob Pozen, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and a senior research fellow at the Brookings Institution, provides clear, simple advice on how to run a good meeting.
Pozen, the author of Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours, shares practical tips on when to call a meeting, how to prepare for a meeting, and how to effectively lead a meeting. With help from a vignette, he also shares the bad behaviors we should all avoid. “While these principles for good meetings seem straightforward, they are violated all the time,” Pozen says. “But you can take the lead in your organization in improving meetings by following the simple rules in this video.”

[@JoshCaiLovzu]

1 Agenda issued beforehand 2 Introduction to key issues 3 Discussion and debate 4 Closure and clarity 5 60min - 90min

[@baconinvader]

I love how real the acting was during the bad meeting vs how fake it was during the good meeting. Good vid though

[@dawnhooper9870]

Excellent video. Now I have a proper idea of how meetings should be run. Thank you for sharing,

[@louwashe]

thank you Owen very cool

[@OmarSChoudhry]

Here because of Owen

[@leducleadership]

I like how you use the dramatic illustrations to highlight the points in the video!

[@kalfayanour]

But what if someone of the attendees looses focus very quickly or not interested or just doesn't want to be at the meeting?

[@joelg125]

I couldn't stop my hands from moving as I was watching

[@chrisifg]

This is a unlimited capture . merit in support of reorganization

[@alfressacabotiro9187]

my professor brought me here aahahaah

[@maikolm5544]

Me 2

[@MrMosoani]

Is it a bad idea to have to attendance sheet? On time people and late people?

[@foreverraining1522]

OMG I hate meetings like those.

[@edeworabraham2761]

PTI student 🙌

[@monmclcompany9370]

Okay I think to get movie easy you should make it.

[@mohibullah3985]

good

[@sergotv3487]

YOU SHOULD RUN AN EFFECTIVE VIDEO THEN TRY TO RUN AN EFFECTIVE MEETING

[@macassans]

the fault meeting video is just>"< horrify to look at.

[@theprimalpitch190]

The good meeting is not that great, though it has a fair script. No warmup from leader, she refers to agenda but doesn't review it or even hint at why it matters. Similarly, she gives zero guidance on what she wants and expects from the participants. Next, the energy level is constrained and phony. Finally, he requested actions are under specified as to terms of satisfaction, dates, and resources required. Weak. Please don't try to model the "good meeting" as an actual ideal.

[@KarenDarmon]

this video is way too slow and boring

[@khush9211]

change the speed to 2x :P

[@c.hanley1423]

Short attention span? Maybe we should replace the Harvard Business School guy with clowns and kitties and 'splosions!

[@rachelbornstein4343]

@@c.hanley1423 I mean, it's not bad to have a shorter attention span, and I do agree that the speaker of this video is kind of bland with how he talks. I much prefer the equally-as-long TedTalk. This man knows how to talk in a way that is motivating, and he presents creative ideas for meetings. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZbSqmaweMyHfrc

[@emmarodriguez931]

I hate having to watch this T-T

[@sswsh7166]

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