in charge of leading and inspiring a team what can you do to make your team meetings more enjoyable, knowledge oriented and almost a pure joy for everyone?

What is the magic pill to make meetings more exciting and also produce better results? Quite simple. Have more meetings, but of a different variety. Apart from regular departmental meetings, periodically have at least 20-30% of your team meetings that have nothing to do with your business or customer issues.

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It is not even 10:00 am on Monday morning and it is already time to rush into one of those dreadful weekly status report meetings, a ritual that started sometime in your previous birth. You know no one will have anything substantial to report, a few trumpeters will hype up their trivial tasks, someone will hijack the whole meeting, a few egos will get bruised, and the meetings will go on till eternity or until your bladders burst. And those cups of coffee, tea and biscuits are fast taking you many steps closer to indigestion and ulcers.

Everyday millions of people waste time on useless meetings that serve no purpose. Worldwide meetings are one of the most life draining and unavoidable activities of the corporate world standing only next to performance appraisals in toxicity. Today many managers and employees go to office just to attend meetings throughout the day without getting a chance to do any meaningful work. Many departments even have daily status report meetings.

In many organizations a stage has been reached where the very mention of the word meeting is equated with something that is boring and life draining. True, meetings and conference calls are necessary to run things, but instead of running things they usually end up stopping things from happening. For example, in some organizations even the most trivial of tasks cannot be done without first calling a meeting, then a second meeting and countless other meetings. Also, another big challenge for meeting initiators is to keep all the attendees awake. Thinking out of the box, have you every asked yourself why do all team meetings have to revolve only around status reports, reorganizations, metrics, jargon filled presentations, performance appraisals, process improvements, customer complaints, finding scapegoats, etc?

Well, you may argue that is what the business is all about. So meetings are necessary whether people like it or not. True, some meetings are unavoidable and absolutely necessary to run the business. But as a manager in charge of leading and inspiring a team what can you do to make your team meetings more enjoyable, knowledge oriented and almost a pure joy for everyone?

What is the magic pill to make meetings more exciting and also produce better results? Quite simple. Have more meetings, but of a different variety. Apart from regular departmental meetings, periodically have at least 20-30% of your team meetings that have nothing to do with your business or customer issues.

Now you may again argue that y

loser to indigestion and ulcers.

Everyday millions of people waste time on useless meetings that serve no purpose. Worldwide meetings are one of the most life draining and unavoidable activities of the corporate world standing only next to performance appraisals in toxicity. Today many managers and employees go to office just to attend meetings throughout the day without getting a chance to do any meaningful work. Many departments even have daily status report meetings.

In many organizations a stage has been reached where the very mention of the word meeting is equated with something that is boring and life draining. True, meetings and conference calls are necessary to run things, but instead of running things they usually end up stopping things from happening. For example, in some organizations even the most trivial of tasks cannot be done without first calling a meeting, then a second meeting and countless other meetings. Also, another big challenge for meeting initiators is to keep all the attendees awake. Thinking out of the box, have you every asked yourself why do all team meetings have to revolve only around status reports, reorganizations, metrics, jargon filled presentations, performance appraisals, process improvements, customer complaints, finding scapegoats, etc?

Well, you may argue that is what the business is all about. So meetings are necessary whether people like it or not. True, some meetings are unavoidable and absolutely necessary to run the business. But as a manager in charge of leading and inspiring a team what can you do to make your team meetings more enjoyable, knowledge oriented and almost a pure joy for everyone?

What is the magic pill to make meetings more exciting and also produce better results? Quite simple. Have more meetings, but of a different variety. Apart from regular departmental meetings, periodically have at least 20-30% of your team meetings that have nothing to do with your business or customer issues.

Now you may again argue that y

stage has been reached where the very mention of the word meeting is equated with something that is boring and life draining. True, meetings and conference calls are necessary to run things, but instead of running things they usually end up stopping things from happening. For example, in some organizations even the most trivial of tasks cannot be done without first calling a meeting, then a second meeting and countless other meetings. Also, another big challenge for meeting initiators is to keep all the attendees awake. Thinking out of the box, have you every asked yourself why do all team meetings have to revolve only around status reports, reorganizations, metrics, jargon filled presentations, performance appraisals, process improvements, customer complaints, finding scapegoats, etc?

Well, you may argue that is what the business is all about. So meetings are necessary whether people like it or not. True, some meetings are unavoidable and absolutely necessary to run the business. But as a manager in charge of leading and inspiring a team what can you do to make your team meetings more enjoyable, knowledge oriented and almost a pure joy for everyone?

What is the magic pill to make meetings more exciting and also produce better results? Quite simple. Have more meetings, but of a different variety. Apart from regular departmental meetings, periodically have at least 20-30% of your team meetings that have nothing to do with your business or customer issues.

Now you may again argue that y

attendees awake. Thinking out of the box, have you every asked yourself why do all team meetings have to revolve only around status reports, reorganizations, metrics, jargon filled presentations, performance appraisals, process improvements, customer complaints, finding scapegoats, etc?

Well, you may argue that is what the business is all about. So meetings are necessary whether people like it or not. True, some meetings are unavoidable and absolutely necessary to run the business. But as a manager in charge of leading and inspiring a team what can you do to make your team meetings more enjoyable, knowledge oriented and almost a pure joy for everyone?

What is the magic pill to make meetings more exciting and also produce better results? Quite simple. Have more meetings, but of a different variety. Apart from regular departmental meetings, periodically have at least 20-30% of your team meetings that have nothing to do with your business or customer issues.

Now you may again argue that y

in charge of leading and inspiring a team what can you do to make your team meetings more enjoyable, knowledge oriented and almost a pure joy for everyone?

What is the magic pill to make meetings more exciting and also produce better results? Quite simple. Have more meetings, but of a different variety. Apart from regular departmental meetings, periodically have at least 20-30% of your team meetings that have nothing to do with your business or customer issues.

Now you may again argue that you are not paid by your management or the customer to do such meetings as they have nothing to do with the business. Besides who will have time or money for all that stuff. But the unique meetings I am going to recommend can act as a tasty food supplement that can take you to a different dimension of business improvement and people management skills, well beyond the dry fodder that is fed as management best practices to organizations everywhere. And they can also lift you to a different plane of self consciousness that can help you inside and outside the workplace.

Have a look at the topics suggested below.

1. Inspirational quotes meeting: Have a meeting where you read, enjoy and discuss hundreds of great, inspirations quotes of various leaders around the world. Such quotes contain wisdom and advice that has withstood the test of time. Many quotes contain fantastic management wisdom. There have been numerous cases where a single inspirational quote has completely changed the life of many people. For example a quote like, ""It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead and find no one there-Franklin Roosevelt," or "There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people will seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self-destruct. It never fails-Richard Rybolt," can start a very interesting conversation and self awareness.

2. Stress Management Meeting: Discuss and brainstorm useful and practicable stress management techniques that can be practiced within and outside the workplace. For example, a simple technique like a proper breathing exercise can be a great knowledge and productivity enhancer to the team to deal with stress caused by various workplace issues.

3. Life of a Great Leader Meeting: Have a meeting where you study the life of one or more great world non business leaders and freedom fighters like Lincoln, Churchill, Gandhi,