Cameron Herold says meetings don't suck, people running them do. Only invite people who will actually contribute. Start exactly on time by ending prior calls five minutes early and arriving five minutes early yourself, treating lateness as disrespectful.
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Years ago, I wrote a book called Meetings Suck, and the reality is meetings don't suck. We suck at running meetings. Let me give you a crash course on how to run highly effective meetings inside of your company. I go very in-depth in this module in my Invest in Your Leaders training as well. If you go check out investinyourleaders.com. But here's some of the core ways to run highly effective meetings. Number 1, only invite people to the meeting who you want to contribute. If you're not willing to give them a seat and give them a chair, And let them talk, don't invite them into the meeting in the first place. They'd rather sit at their desk doing the work that they're doing. So only invite the people that you want to contribute. Every meeting has to start exactly on time, which means you need to finish every phone call and finish every Zoom meeting 5 minutes early, which gives you time to go down the hall, talk to your assistant, get a cup of coffee, sit down at your desk, and start that meeting exactly on time. Practice the whole saying of, if you're not 5 minutes early, you're late. And if you're showing up to a meeting saying, oh, sorry, I'm late, what you're really saying is, F you. I'm disrespectful. My time is more valuable than yours. So I go into this skill of running highly effective meetings in much more detail. I also talk about the core meetings that you need inside of your company. Go check out investinyourleaders.com. Check out the effective meetings module and you will no longer be complaining that meetings suck because you'll realize that it's just us that sucks at running meetings. All right. If you're the COO of a company that does at least $2 million or greater in revenue, or you're the CEO of a company and you're in the United States or Canada, if you would like a copy of my book, The Second in Command, for free, go to cooalliance.com/freebook. That's cooalliance.com/freebook, and I will mail you a copy for free. I will even cover the shipping. Jump on that one today.
