Bringing a leadership team together is both a high-cost and high-opportunity event. We help think through and plan the content and objectives of our client’s offsites, and often act as the outside facilitator which allows the CEO to participate and contribute. Our focus is on identifying tangible, actionable outcomes from any such offsite. Walking away with the team feeling energized and upbeat is not good enough.
Last week I ranted a bit about how CEOs shouldn’t listen to the “time-wasting” bad rap that meetings have, but instead should make their meetings powerful, where they leverage the collective wisdom and experience of their top teams. This week I’m enumerating specific techniques to make meetings produce real results.
Debates are necessary tools, but ultimately decisions must be made. Debates without decisions send your team round and round in circles. Here are the three most common manifestations of this distraction and four strategies for mitigation.
How does your company make decisions? Is your top team afflicted by one of these four illnesses? Learn how to curb the infection and mitigate the damage.
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