Hello Sarah, good to hear from you. Thank you for contacting us all the way from Australia! Clear agendas and meeting minutes are very important for effective meetings. As a bare minimum : a list of action items with due dates and the responsible parties’ names should be kept.

Hi Alan, thank you so much for sharing about your experiences. I totally understand the situation. As a team, you have to make a conscious and consistent effort to keep the new initiative alive by enforcing the new practices, showing management commitment and accountability. Otherwise, the change becomes nothing more than a flavor of the month.

The key to successful change is to stay on top of the new initiative. Top management has to be a living and breathing example of the change.

Thank you Lisa, I’m glad you find these tips useful. Feel free to share yours as well if you have observations of what you found works in your experience.

Jason, sounds like you did such a great job with changing the way meetings were run in your company. If we had someone like you in my workplace to champion this kind of cultural change it would have been a better place for everyone. Maybe I wouldn’t have to leave it either.

Looking forward to hearing more from you on this website 🙂

Thank you, Jason, for sharing your experience so pertinent to our discussion here. It’s very interesting that the person in charge of the meeting was the one who resisted most in your case. I would be curious to find out how long it took this particular group to catch on the numerous benefits offered by the structured meetings and start adopting them on their end. Once they see the improvements this system yields for their daily operations and for resolving strategic action items I doubt they would to go back to the poor format they had before.