{"id":82590,"date":"2017-01-17T21:55:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T02:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2021-08-23T12:36:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T16:36:25","slug":"should-you-say-something-in-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/should-you-say-something-in-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Should You Say Something in Meetings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clipartix.com\/meeting-clipart-image-19562\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-104662 size-medium\" title=\"Should You Say Something in Meetings?\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/project_meeting.jpg?resize=150%2C60&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Should You Say Something in Meetings?\" width=\"150\" height=\"60\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/project_meeting.jpg?resize=150%2C60&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/project_meeting.jpg?resize=75%2C30&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/project_meeting.jpg?w=620&amp;ssl=1 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Recently came across a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.executivesuccess.com.au\/sick-of-wasting-time-in-meetings-try-this\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">post<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/oisingrogan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ois\u00edn Grogan<\/a>, the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.executivesuccess.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$200 Million Business Coach<\/a>&#8221; about why <strong>people hate meetings<\/strong>. He says people hate meetings because:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>They don\u2019t start on time.<\/li>\n<li>They don\u2019t finish on time.<\/li>\n<li>What\u2019s in the middle is a waste of time!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-104660 alignright\" title=\"Should You Say Something?\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Project_Manager-2.png?resize=75%2C100&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Should You Say Something?\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Project_Manager-2.png?resize=112%2C150&amp;ssl=1 112w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Project_Manager-2.png?resize=56%2C75&amp;ssl=1 56w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Project_Manager-2.png?w=312&amp;ssl=1 312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 75px) 100vw, 75px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He stresses the <a title=\"Project manager\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Project_manager\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener wikipedia noreferrer\">project manager<\/a> running the meeting needs to <strong>keep people on point<\/strong>. Project team members should only talk about matters related to their roles. The sales manager should not talk about how production should be delivering. The team should talk about how to get tasks completed.<\/p>\n<p>Coordination between different departments and roles is a vital function of meetings and Mr. Grogan says you\u2019ll get more of your meetings if you keep people on point. To help address the issue, he developed a flow chart on how to decide <strong>when to and how to say something in a meeting<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/tired-wasting-time-meetings-try-oisin-grogan?trk=hp-feed-article-title-comment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-104664\" title=\"WAIT infographic\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/wait_infographic.png?resize=400%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"WAIT infographic\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/wait_infographic.png?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/wait_infographic.png?resize=75%2C42&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/wait_infographic.png?resize=150%2C84&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/wait_infographic.png?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/wait_infographic.png?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>rb-<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>What do you think? Should this be handed out at project kickoff meetings to set the rules?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on <a class=\"broken_link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rb48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ralph.bach.14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rbach48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>. Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business coach Ois\u00edn Grogan has put together a flowchart to help decide if you should speak up during project meetings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1926],"tags":[2990,2209,3348,2769,2013,2012,1927,2210],"class_list":["post-82590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-management","tag-2990","tag-agile","tag-flow-chart","tag-meetings","tag-pmi","tag-pmp","tag-project","tag-waterfall-model"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120125,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82590\/revisions\/120125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}