Cameron HeroldFounder of the COO Alliance & Invest In Your Leaders Training

Your Team Should Know How to Run Meetings Effectively #meetings #effectivemeetings

3 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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A short talk by Cameron Herold arguing that meetings are not inherently bad but fail because leaders and managers are not trained in meeting fundamentals. He outlines core meeting practices—defining purpose, outcome and agenda, starting/stopping on time, allowing opt-outs, and soliciting input—to make meetings highly effective.

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You would never send a kid off to play Little League baseball without teaching them how to hold the bat and toss the ball and catch the ball. Because they'd come home from baseball, they go, daddy, baseball sucks. It's like, no, Johnny, you suck at baseball because you haven't got the basics. So the problem isn't that meetings suck. No one, none of your management team, none of your leadership team, have ever really been trained on how to run highly effective meetings. They've never been trained on how to get people to input in meetings. They've never been trained on how to allow people to opt out of meetings. They've never been trained on how to put together a proper purpose, outcome, and agenda, how to start on time and stop on time. Like, so there's all this stuff. And then for leaders, we feel this pang of, oh, I was invited, I should come. Or for an employee, I was invited to the meeting, I should come. No, it's optional. You look at the purpose, outcome and agenda, and you're like, I don't need to be there for the 50 minutes in between. All of that is possible.