www.remodeling.hw.net: One of the things I do is facilitate peer group meetings for Remodelers Advantage. These meetings are gatherings of around 10 non-competing remodeling contractors from the U.S. and Canada.
This is my 20th year facilitating Remodelers Advantage Roundtable Meetings. Over those years, I've learned a bit about how to run a meeting so that most attendees think it was well run.
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This was a very succinct and helpful article that I think would benefit my whole class right now as we dive into rube and arcade. Though I am not the meeting facilitator for either of those projects, this has given me insight into what a successful meeting looks like in writing, and I think that knowledge in itself will help things run more efficiently in the future. In my experience, as a group we understand what a good meeting is and what needs to happen in order for the meeting to be successful, but we haven’t gotten into the groove of the actual process that needs to happen in order to lead to that happy outcome. I like the idea of the queue, it’s an organized way to make sure that everyone gets a chance to speak and that the thoughts being shared are less scattered and more an extension of the current conversation, both of which are things I’ve noticed trouble with in my meetings this week. I think this article came at just the right time and I think it will help us run more efficiently as a group after break.
While I thought the writing of this article was a little pretentious and condescending, I thought the tips he provided were helpful. I never really thought about the skill required to run a meeting and I have never actually tried to but I can imagine it would take a considerable amount of confidence and effort. I liked this article’s emphasis on setting expectations at the beginning of the meeting. I think something that happens really often is that meetings just start and then halfway through the person who is supposed to be in charge has not set expectations and is not trying to hold people back from monopolizing. I think, if the meeting facilitator can set expectations at the beginning of the meeting, it will be easier for them, as the meeting progresses to refer to those expectations in order to make sure that the meeting goes as planned.
This was definitely a worthwhile read because it touched on several issues I have encountered in meetings, both ones I have led and just been a part of. When I was working on pieces for Playground, I found that many of my peers liked to have meetings, but they did not necessarily have a clear purpose. This led me to be unsure of the goal, and if the meeting was needed, or just a space to chat and devise. I definitely see the importance of meetings to brainstorm and be creative about a project, but that must be clearly defined as the intention. This semester I have three large group projects, so I am compelled to make the most of any time I find to be with the entire group. So far, I have found that meetings for my Foundations of Drama project have run very smoothly as our group is usually on the same page. The workload is also easier to divide because the tasks are easier than those in a design project that has more of a variety. Overall, working towards more direct, focused meetings will facilitate any of these three projects I am looking to succeed in.
I think this article is very interesting starting from the very beginning tips all the way to the end of the tips. I found it interesting how important the set-up is and how this author emphasized it. However, this makes complete sense. The more and more productions I work on and the more leaders I experience, I find that the framework of our first interaction sets the stage for the process. I have found it more and more to be true that leaders introductions and how they carry themselves are extremely important. I think two action items that we in the school of drama do really well is tabling issues and having an agenda but one thing that we don’t do is have everyone talk during production meetings. I get not every agenda item involves every person for production meetings but I have sat in many production meetings that it seems useless for certain people to be in the room. I think something important that should happen in every production meeting is an actual check in not just with the rehearsal team. This is a better use of everyone's time and shows that production meetings actually matter as a lot of times production meetings seem like an onerous task we do instead of a helpful check-in and collaboration time. I don't know how to change the zeitgeist around production meetings at Carnegie Mellon but I bet the author of this article would have some good ideas. Another thing we need to improve in our production meetings is the wrap. I feel like everyone is in such a rush to get done with the production meeting that people rush over the action item or the outcome. The person completing the task might know but not the whole production team, which means that the whole production team is probably missing out on some things.
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