Ever feel like you’re having the same meeting again and again?
A system will produce the similar results no matter what the content is.
If we use the same meeting processes, then even if the topic is different, the results will be largely predictable.
Think back to meetings you’ve had recently.
I bet that they were mostly presentations/updates and open discussion (open discussion being unstructured ‘talking things through’).
This is fine for what Sam Kaner, Participatory Decision Making King, calls business-as-usual meetings.
Business-as-usual meetings are for low-impact, relatively inconsequential decisions that have a reasonably clear solution people easily agree to.
However, if you’re dealing with a complex situation, with large potential consequences and no clear solution, the meeting process needs to change. Continue reading ‘Avoiding Groundhog meetings’
