The Critical Step Most Leaders Skip Before Meetings
May 7, 2025
Summary
Without pre-work, meetings become unproductive and scattered. Prepping your team with key topics beforehand ensures more focused discussions and better decisions.
Transcript
The number one thing that doesn't work well for offsite and often leadership meetings in general is when you throw up an agenda live. When everyone shows up, they haven't had time to deeply think about the topics that you want to discuss, and then everyone just reacts in real time with whatever tends to be top of mind at that moment.
And you go on these big tangents and you end up becoming really inefficient with the time because you're just spitballing a whole bunch of stuff that you didn't have time to deeply think about in advance and really get to the core