From the course: Top Ten Overlooked Productivity Hacks
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Follow the SEAM rule to get the most out of meetings
From the course: Top Ten Overlooked Productivity Hacks
Follow the SEAM rule to get the most out of meetings
- What's the biggest productivity drain in existence? Meetings. Problem is, most tips on running a more productive meeting focus on the heart of the meeting. Advice you've heard a thousand times before. But there's real opportunity to get the most out of meetings by following the SEAM rule and focusing where people usually don't. You see, the SEAM rule asks you to be intentional about how you start and end all meetings. Thus, the acronym, SEAM. Let's start with the end of meetings. There are five magic words to end every meeting with that will skyrocket productivity, they are, who'll do what by when? Yes, it's good old fashioned action planning, but incredibly, it's often bypassed at the end of a meeting. It's effective because using these five words gets everyone on the same page. It gets them taking away the same thing and it drives accountability. I can't count the number of times I've seen meeting drift, in which after a meeting, everyone's memory is fuzzy on what was discussed…
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