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To Do After Every Meeting
After and in between meetings, quickly send out clear and concise meeting notes and follow up on the commitments made.
- If you don’t capture the conversation and put it into a form that can be easily retrieved later, the thinking and the agreements can be lost.
- Persistence is a key influence skill. If you want anything to happen, you must follow up.
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The Directly Responsible Individual
Steve Jobs insisted that all the items on a meeting agenda have a designated person responsible for that task and any follow-up work that happened.
Public accountability works, because it ensures that a project or task actually gets done.
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When Momentum Disappears
Why the productive conversations in a meeting seemingly go nowhere:
- Participants are most likely immediately running to another meeting where their attention shifts to a new set of issues.
- Participants leave the meeting without clarity about what was agreed upon.
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Meeting Notes Are Useful
They help inform people who weren’t there about what happened and remind those who were there about what agreements they made.
Use them as a tool to keep everyone on the same page and focused on what you all need to get done before you meet next.
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