Management
Meetings can be unbearable
I wrote awhile back of the Importance of Meetings and how you don’t know what you’re missing if you don’t attend them. However, I have been a part of many meetings that have had absolutely no purpose. Some of the reasons these meetings have had no purpose to me:
- A meeting to prepare for meeting
- A series of meetings to prepare for other meetings
- No agenda
- Asked to attend yet do not know what your purpose is for being there
- Invited with the thought that you will be an attendee only to find out that you are somehow the focus of the meeting thus leaving you…
- attending a meeting completely unprepared.
- etc.
What are some reasons you feel meetings have no value?
Have you ever felt like doing this?
Conflict: It’s all in how you handle it!
The ‘WHERE’ we react is just as important as ‘HOW’
There is no question that we are all being asked to do and be more. With this increase in demand also comes, at times, an increase in conflict.
This conflict can occur between our perceived and predetermined roles and the disconnect between what others expect of our roles.
Our reactions and treatment of individuals in any situation is important. However, the way we react in the face of difficult people and times is just as telling as how we react behind the scene and away from those we have conflict with.
So Tell Me: How do you typically react?
The Illusion of “Too Busy”
Often we are not really that busy. More often then not, when any of us complain that we never have enough time it is really stemmed from the fact that we DON’T take enough time to just focus on a few things and get the project or task completed or over with. Now just imagine how much time the following things take:
- complaining
- pointing fingers
- waiting on someone else to make a decision
- waiting on someone else to give instructions
- waiting on someone else…
- blaming
- offering opinion and suggestions but never any alternative actions
- etc, etc…
When all you really need to do is (1) sit down (2) organize your priorities and (3) complete them in order!
Who knows maybe if you did that huge pile of “too busy” will become an empty stack of “relief”
Don’t over complicate things by making things over-complicated!
