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Five Reasons to Make Meetings More Fun
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Five Reasons to Make Meetings More FunThe average person spends more time in meetings than they'd like to. The average manager spends the majority of their workday in meetings. Given these facts, it isn't surprising that you can read lots of books, articles and tips about running and managing meetings more effectively. Seldom will you read that you should make your meetings more fun.In this article I will give you five reasons why you should purposefully inject more fun into your
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with the others in the meeting, they
will more likely share their ideas. So anything we can do to
improve the relationships between people is a positive step.
Does this mean that everyone in a meeting needs to be best
friends? Of course not! What it does mean is that as people know
each other better they will be more open to the ideas of others
and more willing to share their own. Fun can make all of this
happen.
Increase energy. How many
meetings have you attended where the energy level feels like it is at zero? People's minds are elsewhere or on other projects. People aren't interested in the topic of the meeting. People don't understand why they are there. And all of this shows up in somber, lifeless body language and effort. Of course there are many ways to remedy this besides injecting fun into your meetings, but fun is still a wonderful tool to improve the energy level and attention to the meeting topics Increase memory and retention. We remember things that are more enjoyable longer. When we make our meetings more fun, we increase people's ability to remember the content and remember the decisions. When people remember the meeting's events better it improves the likelihood that they will complete their action items, share the results of the meeting more accurately with others and much more. The five reasons above are excellent in themselves. But beyond them individually, the overriding reason to make your meetings more fun is that they will be more productive. We have meetings to get people with different opinions, perspectives and experiences working together. Our whole purpose in doing this is to create valuable outcomes. When we can find ways to make the investment of time and energy for all of those involved more productive, we should implement these ways! This does not mean to add an item to your agenda that says fun. Nor does it mean that you should change the focus of your meetings - you are meeting for a important purpose and that should still be your focus. Just remember that when we can make our meetings more enjoyable, even fun, we can enhance the productivity of those meetings - and productivity and results are why we were meeting in the first place. About the author: Kevin Eikenberry is a leadership expert and the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group (http://KevinEikenberry.com), a
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