Royston G. King suggests opening virtual meetings with a 30-second "quick win" where someone shares a brief personal or professional success. He says it counters the energy drain of jumping straight into problem-solving, and that modeling the practice first makes teams comfortable with it.
The other thing that I started doing as a manager that I noticed when we got on our team meetings, we would immediately jump into solving the problem or discussing things that were kind of heavy. Usually when you get on a team meeting, it's because you need to either solve an issue or you need to brainstorm and collaborate. So the topics are typically, you know, very meaty. And what I noticed was our morale in the team meetings like started kind of at a low So you don't want to jump into a team meeting and immediately everyone's, you know, kind of like, huh, and this is how you feel. You want the energy. You want people to bring the energy. And so what I started doing was starting each team meeting with a quick win. So this is like 30 seconds. So it's really fast. You don't want it to be long. You don't want long stories, but you want to encourage people to have a quick win. So something either personally and this is really important post-COVID too, a personal win or a professional win. So I let them do either one. I modeled it first. And I will say, at first, it's a little awkward for your team to get used to it. But when you keep modeling it, and you— I shared personal wins, I would share, you know, professional wins. And then everyone gets a little comfortable. And you can tell the energy of the meeting just really rises. So I highly encourage you to do that or something similar to that. To make your— to bring the energy back to your team meetings.
