Dan Martell - April 06, 2024


Why Meetings Are The Soul Sucking Tool of Most Organizations


Episode Stats


Length

35 seconds

Words per minute

282.41263

Word count

167

Sentence count

12


Summary

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Have you ever felt like a company meeting is boring and you just don't have the courage to speak up about it? Well, this episode is for you. Meetings are a soul-sucking tool of most organizations, and if you don't make them fun, you're going to miss them.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 We have a rule in our company.
00:00:01.080 If you're in a meeting and you don't feel like it's valuable,
00:00:03.220 you vote with your attendance if you come again.
00:00:05.560 And nobody can force you to go to a meeting.
00:00:07.280 If they don't make the meeting interesting,
00:00:08.940 sometimes there's like these company meetings
00:00:10.440 and you go and you're like,
00:00:11.260 this is so boring, it's not relevant to me.
00:00:12.880 You don't have to go and nobody can fire you for not going.
00:00:15.960 Whoever owns the meeting should reach out to you
00:00:17.860 and go like, hey, Bob, I noticed you haven't been out to me.
00:00:19.560 I'm curious why.
00:00:20.260 And you should have the courage and the ability,
00:00:22.340 candidly, to give the feedback to say,
00:00:24.100 I think it's boring.
00:00:25.240 And if I was to make it fun,
00:00:26.580 I would do a breakout after 20 minutes
00:00:28.200 and I would do a feedback Q&A at the end.
00:00:30.160 Hey, that's awesome feedback.
00:00:31.360 Let us consider that.
00:00:32.360 Meetings are the soul-sucking tool of most organizations.