
Tools For Better Meetings
“In any organization, employees watch the executive team very closely. That goes for all behaviors, including how meetings are run. If the leadership runs poor meetings, it cascades down and perpetuates itsel”
Chief Justice (retired) Linda Copple Trout
Running Truly Awful meetings is a common mistake I see leaders make. This happens because they are missing at least one of three things: clarity, focus, or
Justice Trout’s mistake as she described in Rookie Mistakes was a recognition that her meetings needed a clearer structure (just like the courtroom she was used to running). Justice Trout worked with her team to identify the appropriate behaviors for meetings and how to use the tools of clarity to begin and end the meeting, so there wasn’t any further confusion.
“Taking quick, decisive action after appropriate considerations worked for the Idaho Courts and worked elsewhere across the organization—and that included changing poorly run meetings to those that were productive and clear,”
Chief Justice (retired) Linda Copple Trout
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