The 25 Minute Meeting

Index

• ACS (Anyone Can Schedule) factor 50–51
• act 103, 104, 106–107
  • — tools for 107
• action, failure of 113–115
• action plan for introducing 25-minute meetings 161–163
  • — resistance, dealing with 163–165
  • — roadmap for 161–166
  • — set up 163
  • — show up 163
  • — step up 163
• agenda 15, 60, 61, 68–75
  • — focused 70, 71
  • — focused vs formal 70–75
  • — formal 70, 71
  • — lack of 14, 70
  • — process for 64
  • — vs process 58
• air raid story 135–136
• alternatives to meetings 41

• bad habits in meetings 15, 117; see also punctuality
  • — fixing tech 15
  • — going off-track 15, 117
  • — punctuality, poor 13, 14, 15, 77–78
  • — technology distraction 15, 83–87
  • — unclear agenda 15
  • — in virtual meetings 126
• body language 96; see also communication
• brisk notes 105

• cameras, using 126–128
• certainty, need for 70
• charter of agreement 71–72, 130
• check-in 95–96
• communication
  • — inclusive language 128–130
  • — visual 122, 123, 147–159
• consensus, instant 107
• cost of meetings 50–51

• DEFCON system in participation 90–95
• defensiveness 90–95
• distractions, technology 83–87

• examples and stories, featured
  • — focus and action 27
  • — deliverables 117
  • — excluding tech 85
  • — formal vs random meetings 73–74
  • — goal-setting (purpose) 42
  • — graphic recording 156, 157
  • — managing behaviour: red and yellow cards 9
  • — number of participants 54
  • — punctuality 80
  • — rapid rapport 99
  • — Scan, Focus and Act model 110
  • — shifting mindset 18
  • — stand-up meetings 139
  • — virtual meetings 131
  • — walking meetings 143
• experiments
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